locke_n_load wrote:I see the issues as similar as marijuana in CO.
Pot is legal in Colorado but against federal law, but the federal law is hardly enforced.
If this law passed, buying/selling class III items would not be against state law, but still against federal law with no tax stamp, but Texas officials could not prosecute or help the Fed.
You better bet that the Fed would come to get you for your unregistered Texas NFA items way before they go after the pot smokers in Colorado!
Quick question and I'm serious about this. How many field agents are there in the BATFE? In the FBI? How many can they afford to send to Texas to cover our vast and populous state? Those folks NEED the locals helping them. I'd imagine a large portion of their cases are passed on from city or state LEAs. Now, I'm not saying I'm going to run out and violate Federal law if that bill were to become state law; I consider myself a law-abiding kind of guy. What I am saying is that the Feds have their hands full already and it would be those using NFA items in crimes big enough to get the Feds' attention that would be most in jeopardy, as it should be.