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Revised Firearm Owners Protection Act webpage

Posted by David Hardy · 12 April 2011 09:41 AM

I've got it up here. The latest additions and improvements took about ten hours of work, so blogging has been slow. The page outlines the convoluted legislative history of the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986 (without this, it's almost impossible to understand how the bill came to be), has the leg history in keyword-searchable form, and has pdfs of the critical documents.

Whew! Just changing the House floor debates from daily edition pagination (which isn't quite official Blue Book format) to permanent bound edition pagination took hours.

· Gun Control Act of 68

6 Comments | Leave a comment

5thofNov | April 12, 2011 10:10 AM | Reply

David, perhaps you can put this up on your website also. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6Mx2UcSEvQ FOPA Hughes Amendment VOTE APRIL 10 1986

Muddyboots | April 12, 2011 2:08 PM | Reply

Thank you for doing that!

DirtCrashr | April 12, 2011 6:02 PM | Reply

Wow! That's very exhaustive - and no doubt was exhausting!

Jim K | April 13, 2011 6:24 AM | Reply

I have always found it very revealing when the subject of the Hughes amendment comes up the NRA remains silent. When asked about the back stabbing they gave NFA owners the NRA refuses to even discuss it.

Harold | April 14, 2011 2:18 PM | Reply

Why would the NRA acknowledge that prior to the AW ban (which they totally opposed, a first for them) they were at the national level the nation's most effective gun control organization, in deeds, not words?

You can wish for a mea culpa but since when do organizations like that make such admissions? Does their official history mention the Cincinnati Revolt in anything like its real context and meaning?

Jim K | April 18, 2011 8:35 PM | Reply

Just expect them to be honest when they come begging for donations. Sooner or later it may be your favorite type firearm to be thrown under the bus to protect someone else's.

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