They talked about this on F&F this morning. Apparently they're backpedalling furiously. Some dude who was for the proposal (just because his party wanted him to be), had not read the 8-pager to see what's in it.
What happend to the old time laws. I had an uncle that was a collector of guns, he came across a Tommy Gun and had to buy for big bucks a licence to keep it in Maine. Federal license for the weapon. This Uncle had some odd weapons bought here and there, not for sale but had to have a license for.
This was years ago,perhaps 30-40. Today anyone can own anything he had to pay for or register and keep with no problem. No federal license or registering weapon with the town. My poor uncle will be turning in his grave were he to know what just anyone can buy without paying all the money to government licenses he did for his arms.
Maine is odd, when one buys a weapon from a dealer and they are from out of state, the weapon has to be brought to the state line in NH for the sale. You can see the small shacks on the State line that one has to go to for to pick up a weapon bought in Maine. Odd how this works, lots of other stuff becides weapons are sold over state lines.
Used autos advertised in Maine , you want to buy one but it is moved across state lines for the sale. Buy in Maine there is a lemon law, buy in NH. no such thing.-----Yes my daughter got taken by that scam. She bought a car in Maine but being young got scammed when she found she had to pick up the car and sign the sales deal in NH and the car was a mess. Youth, she never asked us what we thought she just went for what was a good deal and found a lesson in Scams, Poor kid. I know a few adults that got caught in this scam also.
People buy cars and make sure the vin number shows the car is not stolen. How many people check the ID numbers to track the weapons they buy ??? Is there any goverment program that has a hot wire to check on the Identification no. of where the weapon was sold to , how many times it changed hands ??
Responcible gun owners need to know where the weapon was used before and who by.
Went off topic , sorry.