> reagan is the reason i can't own a full-auto. the nra, all ffls, and everyone in the gun community strongly supported the fopa in 1986. the anti-gunners were so opposed to fopa that they tacked on the hughes amendment as a poison pill in an attempt to prevent the bill from being passed, but the pro-gun people in congress decided it was worth it because of all of the other pro-gun changes in fopa. fopa cracked down on the atf and limited how much they could harass a dealer per year. fopa prohibited the government from keeping an non-nfa registry of firearm ownership. fopa made it legal to ship ammunition through the us mail and eliminated the requirement for ammo sellers to keep sales records. before that, you could only buy ammo at local stores, and they were required to keep logs of who bought ammo and what they bought. fopa protected the right to transport a firearm through unfriendly states, pre-empting gay local anti-gun laws. reagan gets wrongly blamed by you dumbass zoomers. he signed the bill into law because the entire gun community strongly supported it at the time. the hughes amendment nfa tax stamp machine gun stuff was (and still is) a relatively niche and obscure rich gun nerd thing compared to all of the much more broader ranging good things fopa gave us. all firearm laws are unconstitutional and immoral anyway. if you want a machine gun, just drill the third hole and stop being a cuck who needs permission first.
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