Firearms Owner's Protection Act (1986)

Firearm Owners' Protection Act (FOPA) 1986 Pub. L. No. 99-308, 100 Stat. 449 (May 19, 1986) - 18 U.S.C. 921 United States federal law that revised many statutes in the Gun Control Act of 1968.

Banned the sale to civilians of NFA weapons manufactured after the date of enactment May 19, 1986

Restricted sales of newly manufactured NFA weapons to military and law enforcement

Ended record keeping on ammunition sales, except for armor piercing

"Safe passage" provision allows persons to travel with firearms through states that have strict gun control laws

Forbid the U.S. Government or any agency of it from keeping any records linking non-National Firearms Act firearms to their owners

Because of this Act, records of background checks from the NICS Check are legally required to be destroyed after 24 hours

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[DietrichKaiserfs]

Limit the supply and the demand goes up...it would cost $70 for the parts to have burst or auto parts in a rifle...yet to do it legally you'd be lucky to pay only $7,000. This is a complete violation of the Constitution.

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@DietrichKaiserfs

More like $7 and $17,000.. but your point is sound

[Teeheehee555]

The politicians are just scared of their own people, if you watch the hughes amendment in action, you can see that someone is trying to explain why they shouldnt ban full-autos, but they wouldnt let him speak, their scared of the average american. soon only the rich can afford the transferrable full autos.

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@Teeheehee555

?? at an average of $10,000+ for any transferable full auto, who do you think owns all the NFA stuff now?

But I am NOT afraid of the 'rich'.. I am much more afraid of the ignorant

[biglou250]

It will only get worse if WE let it get worse. If half of gun owning Americans would get active politically we wouldn't have to worry about anti-gun laws passing.

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@hicama10

I agree, lets get it revoked

[scottcain20051]

As I spoke to a police officer a while ago, he said that even though machine guns were not so available on the streets of San Antonio, crime's are usually made with handguns, and that gun crimes increased since this act and others were put in place.

[Teeheehee555]

@GunWebsites each time an MG gets transferred the price gets higher, for instance, you purchase a Mac-10 for 3,500 then you pay your 200 tax, once you decide to sell it you might want to sell it for a slightly high price the reason why you wnat to do this is due to the rarity of pre-86 weapons, its no doubt that eventually their going to be so rare that itll be worth like 85,000. you cant travel back in time and make more pre bans. And only one incident happened with a legal full-auto, a cop.

[combatyugioh]

a vietnam era/ Grenada era M60 can cost like $50,000.00+ 200 transfer tax. when a weapons smuggler sells an upgraded M60e4 for only 4,000. instead of the law protecting us its slowly putting the law abiding citizens in danger. its uncommon for someone to pop out of nowhere and kill u with a post 86 machine gun, but 25 yrs from now no one will be able to afford any pre-86 full auto because theyre either rusted or the price that continues to increase for each transfer sky rockets!