Ol' Bob's point is that the yellow-dog, horribly-misnamed "Firearm Owner's Protection Act" of 1986 actually PROHIBITS the manufacture of automatic weapons (machine guns) for transfer to non-law-enforcement after May 19, 1986.
Now, I gotta bone to pick with President Reagan up in Heaven when I get there for signin' that thing with that poison pill in it, but I reckon he figured it'd get knocked out in the next bill. It did not.
{Edit: I found out from John Ross, author of "Unintended Consequences", that the poison-pil Hughes Amendment was not in the version Reagan signed, as it was added in the last 30 seconds before the vote.}
As Ol' Bob says on his blog, that means there ain't been no new machine guns since:
Val Kilmer was “Iceman” and Madonna was still newly-married to Sean Penn.Heh, heh, heh.
What he media is trying to do is to conflate automatic weapons (like the M-16) with semi-automatic ones, like Ol' Backwoods' AR-15s. Ol' Josh Sugarman, that city slicker from one of them gun-bannin' groups, got that particular LIE started in the late 80's:
"The weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully-automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons – anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun – can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons." - Josh Sugarmann, executive director of the Violence Policy Center (VPC) - 1989
Make no mistake: it is a LIE. And the media tries to tell it bigger and bolder all the time.
We gotta push back, people.
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