Vertical foregrip on a short barrel shotgun?
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Is that illegal?
You need to get a federal permit (costs ~$300 per permit) for each of those features.
So maybe.
Next church service's collection will cover it.
Jesus SuperPACking Heat
Cant tell if there is a shoulder stock on that one. Technically speaking, if it doesnt, and was manufactured with the shortened barrel longer than 12 inches, but less than 18 inches, it could fall in the AOW, any other weapon category under the nfa act of 1936 , and therefore not require a permit for anything. The vertical foregrip may require a 200 dollar tax stamp as an adittion. The legality is a gray area.
If it has a shoulder stock, it is a sbs, short barrel shotgun. And requires a 200 dollar tax stamp. The addition of the vertical foregrip may or may not require a second 200 dollar tax stamp, depending on origional classification and configuration.
Tl,dr: american gun regulations make no sense at all.
Are the tax stamps still only $200 each? I thought they got upped to $300 a few years back.
But yeah, definitely agree that regulations feel more arbitrary than objective in how they're implemented.
The nfa has not increased the price of the tax stamp since its implementation in 1937. At that time, the stamp essentially doubled the price of a machine gun. And people quit buying them because of that. If the tax stamp had kept up with inflation, the cost of a tax stamp for an nfa firearm would be well over 4 thousand dollars now. The cheapest machinegun a civillian can buy now however, will cost you over 10 thousand dollars, in addition to the tax stamp.
.....now that's some weird economics.
It's my understanding that there's minimal additional machining to take a typical rifle to "machine gun" status. Is it, like, demand that drives the price up like that?
No machine guns manufactured after 1986 can be legally owned by a civillian. Part of the firearm owners protection act. Previous laws in the mid sixties and the aformentioned laws put in place in 1934 had already diminished the overall count of legally transferable machine guns by a huge margin. At this point, because of supply and demand,, a fully transferable machine gun can cost anywhere between 10k and 80k, depending on a whole host of facors. Normally mabufacturer, model, and condition.
And you are right, making a machine gun is cheap. Converting an existing rifle is even easier. With wire from a coat hanger, the internet, and twenty minutes anyone can make an ar15 fully automatic. The thing is, no one does that, because the penalties are severe and despite what the media shows on tv, most gun crime in the united states is carried out by small caliber pistols. But thats a conversation for another thread.
Fun fact, if you want to legally own a rpg, and can pass the background checks, its all yours. Its just ungodly expensive and it also requires a 200 dollar tax stamp. And each projectile requires the same background check and individual tax stamp. I imagine you can guess how hard those are to come by, and how much attention your address would get after trying that.
Just so I'm clear on what you're saying: per U.S. law, it would be illegal for me (a civilian) to own a machine gun manufactured after 1986? And that's regardless of passing background checks and/or paying for the tax stamp?
As a private individual a fully automatic gun made after 1986 is illegal for you to own. Its part of the hughes amendment.
There are post year 86 machine guns, called dealer samples that are still manufactured and floating around,, but they can only be owned by a law enforcement agency or a class 3 firearms dealer. Not private individuals.
This is probably more a question for a lawyer than a rando on the internet, but how legal would this be: let's say you have a rifle that was designed as a semi-automatic, but can be easily modified to become automatic and that was manufactured before 1986. Would it be possible to legally modify it in [current year] to be an automatic?
We're getting pretty deep in this comment chain, and I appreciate you letting me pick your brain over this. Usually people abandon threads way before this mark and just wanna give a shout-out for your time.
The way the hughs ammendment works is, the only legally transferable machine guns were those that were on the registry in 1986. The total number of those registered machine guns was 175,977. There are no more. If your gun was not on that registry when the hughs ammendment passed, the answer is no.
But... god these rules are ridiculous.
For certain guns, if you have a legally registered full auto sear (the sear in this case is the firearm), you can put that in the appropriate nfa registered firearm (think sbr), anf then it would be legal.
This is normally how you see fully automatic hk95 and mp5s and registered colt recievers put into modern ar15 platforms.
It really is a shitshow when it comes to these laws. The real answer to all your question is money. If you have the cash equivalent to a brand new vehicle just sitting around, you can have a legal full auto gun. If you dont have those funds, dont bother. You wouldnt be able to afford the ammo for a fully automatic anyways.
Short barrel? $300 permit.
Fore hand-grip? $300 permit.
Vertical? $300 permit.
Sheeeyit. I've been a criminal most my life? Hot damn!
That....That can't be real. Please tell me this is a parody. I mean i know this is basically half the GOP platform but...she can't have really just put it that way, right?
Oh, it's real, and it's even stranger than I initially thought.
She should stay true to her conservative ideals and never leave the kitchen
The pillow ad!! Ahaha
"But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet."
1 Timothy 2:12
I accidentally read the babies as rabies and that makes it even worse.
We are in straight idiocracy-land right now, when Kandiss Taylor launched her 2022 political campaign she literally painted this on her bus. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kandiss-taylor-jesus-guns-babies/
John Oliver made a whole skit about this.
Like seriously, watch it, it's amazing xD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEa3sK1iZxc
It actually makes perfect sense: it's in order of priorities, or at least as she understands them (making the rich wealthier is just a byproduct, as far as she is concerned).
Can someone tell me why "christians" in the US are so obsessed with Jesus instead of god? Like most other places I've been Christians tend to worship God directly.
I think it’s less of a Christian thing and more of a Protestant thing, particularly Baptist. Catholics aren’t as obsessed with Jesus.
Catholics are weirdly obsessed with virgin Mary
Can confirm, I was weirdly obsessed with the virgin merry back when I was Catholic
How did you feel about pip?
Nah, he was just in it for the breakfasts. Fuck that guy...
They're all about God too, but it seems intuitive that they're also specifically interested in Jesus too since he's the one that literally sets them apart from other religions.
Like... he's literally the "Christ" in "Christian"...kinda makes sense that they'd be all about him.
To clarify though they're only interested white Jesus, not to be confused with brown Jesus.
Depending on what sect of Christianity you belong to, you either believe that Jesus was God's son or that Jesus was actually God in a human body. The concept is called transsubstantiation, and it is controversial among Christians. For example: Catholics believe in the Holy Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit utilizing token transsubstantiation during Communion (the bread and wine are LITERALLY his body and blood), whereas Protestants believe in direct transsubstantiation, that Jesus was literally God in a human body and Communion is performed as a symbolic gesture.
Its the holy trinity
Shopping, guns and Jeebus?
Jesus, guns, babies! Come on, we just went over this. We even painted it on the side of the bus!
Sorry, I forget. Does it have to be in this particular order?
You need to make the baby before you start shooting and praying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEa3sK1iZxc
Oh, if it's not my favourite furry hating ridiculous Republican candidate Kandiss Taylor
Kandiss Taylor Says Globes Are Anti-Flat Earth Brainwashing - Rolling Stone
May 24, 2023Kandiss Taylor, a recently elected GOP District Chair in Georgia, claims the Earth is flat as a pancake and that Big Globe is trying to brainwash her. She also promotes conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and the 2022 primary. She is a firm believer in the Flat Earth movement and a former failed gubernatorial candidate.
Jesus fuck
In that order 😦
Nah, bruh, GOP always puts guns first.
Skeet Shooting if you will
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I think that Jesus still is from a SNL skit with Christoph Waltz, Djesus Uncrossed: https://youtu.be/mqISX2o0a4A
Excuse me, he does WHAT