On Tuesday, Marshall introduced the Home Defense and Competitive Shooting Act of 2019. This would change provisions of the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA) that put extra restrictions on the ownership of short-barreled rifles—that is, rifles* with a barrel shorter than 16″ in length or that have a total length of less than 26″.As the article points out, this law affects all sorts of rifles -- break action, lever action, and so on. This bit Steve McQueen at one point in his storied career, when his 'Mare's Leg' prop cost his studio a small fortune in ATF fees. Weirdly, as the Wiki article goes on to explain, it's perfectly legal to manufacture the same rifle as a pistol, rather than making a rifle and then cutting it down.
The NFA requires owners of short-barreled rifles to register them with the federal government; they must also pay a one-time $200 excise tax per gun. If Marshall's bill becomes law, these extra requirements would disappear; short-barreled rifles* would be regulated under the same rules as semiautomatic rifles....
Gun lobbying groups have praised Marshall's bill for, as Gun Owners of America (GOA) puts it, attempting to undo the "egregiously unconstitutional registration, taxation, and regulation of short-barreled rifles." GOA is joined by the National Rifle Association, which supported the NFA back in 1934 but now backs Marshall's bill.
The NFA is probably unconstitutional front-to-back, of course, but the courts aren't there yet. Getting there, maybe.
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perfectly legal to manufacture the same rifle as a pistol....
Or just get any of a number of Buntline Special models. But the Rifleman's Big Lip lever was worth the price in cool.
Eric Hines
As the Wiki points out, this was also Zoe’s weapon in Firefly, for those too young for McQueen.
Hollywood is pretty deceptive. They call real guns with blanks, "props". As if it was a "prop gun" that killerd Bruce Lee's son Brandon on a set. No, it was a real gun, using REAL BULLETS, that somebody loaded and thought were blanks. Not only deceptive, corrupt, full of pedos, and also INCOMPETENT too.
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