----- Original Message ----- From: "David T. Hardy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 3:38 PM Subject: [inbox] Re: To restore second amendment rights in District of Columbia
> > (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.) > > Yep--that's the DC ban. I understand they refuse to register Ruger > 10-22 rifles, because altho they come stock with a 10 round mag, some > folks make 30-50 round mags for them. So a simple semiauto .22 falls > under it. > > BTW--the early drafts of the NFA also keyed the def. of MG on number > of shots. Probably because the Thompson with drum magazines were on > everyone's mind. NRA was the one who suggested that the real > definition is more than one shot per trigger pull. DC appears to have > taken both the early NFA definition and the final one and enacted > both. I suspect that quite a number of jurisdictions may have done that. I was told by an older member of a gun club in California that until the 1950s, he could not purchase 15 round magazines for M1 carbines in California because it was considered a machine gun. I don't know if he was confused, or if California had originally used this definition above. It might be worth investigating. Clayton E. Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
