@Rapidcreek to politics • 4 months agoStop Arming Cartels Act makes it unlawful to make, sell, possess a rifle ‘capable of firing .50-caliber ammunition’www.wavy.commessage-square74arrow-up1130arrow-down19
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minus-square@EvacuateSoullink3•4 months agoBlack powder weapons aren’t legally considered firearms. You can order them in the mail with no background check.
minus-squareEl Bartolink2•4 months agoWhat are they considered if not firearms, then? Genuine question…
minus-square@LrdThndrlink6•edit-24 months ago“Firearm” is a legal definition. It’s not that they’re considered something else, it’s just that they don’t fit the legal definition of a “firearm”. Don’t look at me. Look at the ATF and their weird-ass arbitrary rules and definitions.
Black powder weapons aren’t legally considered firearms. You can order them in the mail with no background check.
What are they considered if not firearms, then? Genuine question…
“Firearm” is a legal definition. It’s not that they’re considered something else, it’s just that they don’t fit the legal definition of a “firearm”.
Don’t look at me. Look at the ATF and their weird-ass arbitrary rules and definitions.
Thank you.
Not the ATF, Congress who wrote the laws.