Good luck to him and his lawsuit. The Hughes Amendment is evil
He will win when the clusterfuck of gun laws and rights and rulings makes the government contradict itself. The SCOTUS has an old ruling that any regular common use small arm used by the military cannot be denied to civilians.
An AR-15 is a rifle platform. M16 is the US Military's designated nomenclature for a select fire AR-15. And even a fully automatic rifle does not a machine gun make.
Yep. If it's crew-served and automatic, then it's a machine gun. If it's for a single soldier and automatic, then it's just an automatic weapon. M16s are a relic from 50 years ago that no one makes as automatics anymore.
Bold move Cotton, lets see how this plays out.
Stop looking for permission to live your life
Time for someone to start designing third hole jigs and naughty pocket milling kits so they can be ready to drop when this hits? The other parts are available in limited quantities although reasonably priced aftermarket alternatives would sell like hotcakes on day 1. Perhaps a no naughty pocket needed select fire setup would appease the masses. I suspect this would still fall under tax stamp classification which is telling because you can totally buy an old full auto with a tax stamp for fifteen grand so it looks like this guy is in this fight based solely on principal as I'm sure the legal battle will cost him much more than that.
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