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Schadenfreude
A German term for being amused at the tribulations of another.
Washington Post: "D.C. weighs gun law appeal, with fate of restrictions nationwide in the balance."
Mother Jones: "Just Days After Las Vegas, Gun Laws in the Nation's Capitol Are About to Get Weaker."
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The tragedy in Las Vegas can be entirely laid at the feet of one former Rep. William J. Hughes of New Jersey. May he rot in a very hot place for eternity once he leaves our fair planet.
If his inane 1986 FOPA amendment had not been passed, there never would have been an artificial scarcity of Class 3 firearms, and thus those who wanted to experience and own legal and affordable full-auto firearms would never have developed a regulation-driven unsafe device like a bump stock.
I hope ILA and GOA, in the lobbying blitz ahead, not only trade off a ban on bump stocks (which can't really be legally defined anyway, not to a scrutiny that would hold up in court) but insist on a full Hughes Amendment repeal so this demand can be met under the existing NFA scheme.
They also need to insist on re-opening the country to historic C&R full-autos over 50 years old--and hold regular NFA Amnesties every two or so years--to help meet demand. All these new, NOS, and rediscovered Class 3 firearms would be registered in the NFA Registry, of course, allowing those who want these firearms to be on the radar screen of authorities.
That's why Paddock never came to the attention of anyone--if he had to go through a much more difficult NFA background check there might have been more flags raised about him.
But thanks to the narcissism of Democrat Rep. Hughes--and that clown Rep. Charley Rangel, D of NY, who was running the House FOPA debate when Hughes was "passed" by voice vote--32 years later we instead had the 1 Oct 17 Las Vegas shooting abomination.
The gun laws in DC have never been legal. Congress is granted exclusive legislation in DC. Exclusive legislation means no other governmental body may legislate in DC. Congress cannot delegate their delegated powers to anyone else. If Congress delegates power to the DC council then that delegation violates the requirement that Congress has exclusive legislative power in the district AND Congress abrogates its power by allowing another entity to exercise powers entrusted in Congress by We the People. These gun laws were passed by the DC council, an entity with no authority because only Congress has legislative authority in the district.
Why the judiciary has never ruled this is a mystery except that either the judiciary has an agenda or the judiciary are simply ignorant.