Keith writes:
>HR 3193 passed the house yesterday.
>
>http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:hr.03193:
I read this bill and wondered about one item:
SEC. 4. REPEAL D.C. SEMIAUTOMATIC BAN.
Section 101(10) of the Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975
(sec. 7-2501.01(10), D.C. Official Code) is amended to read as follows:
`(10) Machine gun means any firearm which shoots, is
designed to shoot, or can be readily converted or restored to shoot
automatically, more than 1 shot by a single function of the trigger.'.
because (10) is a pretty standard legal definition (ala the NFA) of a
"machinegun".
So I went to the D.C. Official Code and found that the existing
statute defines:
(10) "Machine gun" means any firearm which shoots, is designed to shoot,
or can be readily converted or restored to shoot:
(A) Automatically, more than 1 shot by a single function of the
trigger;
(B) Semiautomatically, more than 12 shots without manual reloading.
Wow! That defines all (or essentially all) semiautomatic firearms as
"machine guns" - because all it takes is a magazine 12 rounds, or the
possibility of having such a magazine to have it considered a machine
gun. (Yes, I know that it says "more than 12 shots", but a magazine of
12 round capacity plus one round in the chamber = 13 shots.)
--henry schaffer
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