Eightball
Member
Text of H.R. 6257: Assault Weapons Ban Reauthorization Act of 2008
Time to get back in touch with your congresscritters, AGAIN.
But I do have a question: Section 2, (a) (3)(A), or however this nonsense is cited, is "‘(3) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to--""
Why is the magic date October 1, 1993? Wouldn't that violate ex post facto?
EDIT: Sorry, this is a super-dupe; I searched for the wrong punctuation before posting, found dupes all over the place after I already posted this. But the "1993" question still bugs me.
Time to get back in touch with your congresscritters, AGAIN.
But I do have a question: Section 2, (a) (3)(A), or however this nonsense is cited, is "‘(3) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to--""
‘(A) any of the firearms, or replicas or duplicates of the firearms, specified in appendix A to this section, as such firearms were manufactured on October 1, 1993;
Why is the magic date October 1, 1993? Wouldn't that violate ex post facto?
EDIT: Sorry, this is a super-dupe; I searched for the wrong punctuation before posting, found dupes all over the place after I already posted this. But the "1993" question still bugs me.