Please accept this in the “I seek enlightenment,” spirit in which it is intended, not as a combative argument. Most of my info concerning current gun laws come from this an one other board. Both are populated by people far smarter than me. A point that one person on the Pistol Forum made is:Jumping Frog wrote:We have a (R) Congress and an (R) Senate.
Time to put a bill in front of the Oslammer repealing the entire "sporting purpose" nonsense anyway, since the enforcement is entirely arbitrary and capricious. If the (R)'s are smart, they'll embed it in another bill that must get signed, however, even forcing a veto is better than not acting at all.
Do I understand the the “sporting purposes” test actually reduces the restrictions on types of guns we can own?The three major places it (sporting purposes) appears in federal gun law are to exceptions to otherwise complete bans, so it certainly isn't as simple as just repealing the "test." This is why NRA opposed a number of bills in the mid 2000s to repeal the sporting purpose test for imports. Those bills didn't put anything in place of the test, and would have had the effect of creating an outright ban on importing firearms. I also think the import test would be the easiest to fix, any firearm that can be lawfully sold in the United States should be importable.