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- From: btree!hale@UCSD.EDU (Bob Hale)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: New Jersy Gun Laws
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.174404.16786@btree.uucp>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 00:00:16 GMT
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- Organization: Brooktree Corporation, San Diego
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- In article <viking.724807237@vincent2.iastate.edu> viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
- writes:
- [ handgun ammo registration discussion deleted ]
- # I got a bit annoyed at having to fill out that form when I
- #purchased .30-30 ammunition at a Kmart last summer, and the resulting
- #post and festivities on t.p.g. has lead me to believe this requirement
- #was removed in the Gun Owners Protection Act of (I think) 1986. Some
- #shops still do it, but I don't think it's necessary. I bought .45ACP
- #just a few weeks ago, not at Kmart, and filled out nothing.
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- Before 1986 there was a registration requirement on sales of
- handgun ammo, except .22 caliber. This was a nuisance and was
- cancelled by the 1986 FOPA.
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- Before 1986 I would take a .45 rifle with me when buying .45ACP
- ammo and the store clerk wouldn't even bother me about ID. Since
- 1986 I haven't been bothered at all.
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- Even though the 1986 act did apparently outlaw private acquisition
- of machine guns, it did provide a number of benefits to us all.
- Sometimes things do change for the better :-).
-
- Bob Hale ...!ucsd!btree!hale
- ...!btree!hale@ucsd.edu ...!ucsd!btree!hale@uunet.uu.net
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