tulsamal wrote:
Yes, if the AWB "sunsets" then anything after that will have to be new legislation. So it will be as if the 94 law never existed at all.
If they can't pass something by the sunset date, nothing will happen until next year. And probably not even then.
Gregg
Harry Tuttle wrote:
No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
indeed, if they don't have a rule in place on September 14th,
the Ex post facto provisions of the US Constitution prevent them from passing a law on October 14th that would be retroactive to September 14th
They cannot criminalize conduct that was legal when originally performed
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitu...i.html#section9
they can however create a tax on the possession of what they deem naughty machinery
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Gregg:
What you said in closing depends, at least in part, on who is president next year. Then there is question as to the composition of The Congress(House and Senate)
Harry Tuttle:
Re your quoting the constitution concerning the passage of bills of attainder and or ex post facto laws, I can think of one of the latter that has been passed, and is currently "on the books". It was originally known as The Lautenberg Amendment, and as constituted would preclude a person who at any time in the past, had been convicted of or "took a plea" on what is called "domestic violence" from ever owning firearms. It matters not that the charge might have been, according to state law, the most minor of misdeamenors. The most basic of the individduals civil rights is flat gone. If this is not an example of the ex post facto law that you mentioned, then I do not know what would be. Of course, I'm not learned in the law, so I might be wrong.