since i saw the CCW national reciprocity petition i thought at least some of you guys would want to help get this at least brought to light.

The Hughes amendment to the Firearms Owners Protection Act (FOPA) closed the machine gun registry in 1986. The problem is that there is now video available of the vote to add the Hughes amendment that clearly shows that the motion to add it failed in committee. However it was sent to the Senate with that amendment attached anyway after the house approved the FOPA without the Hughes amendment. Once passed in the Senate, President Regan signed it into law.

By all rights the Hughes amendment should never have been included and signed into law, yet it is now on the books. Please press Congress to repeal the Hughes amendment, especially since it was never passed legally to begin with.

recording of what happened that day


petition site
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/%21/petition/push-congress-repeal-hughes-amendment-fopa-and-nfa/FWXhjh9s

Very interesting.  I shall email my representatives forthwith!

As far as I know, there hasn't been any serious push to do this but have heard many gun owners mention it. It would solve a lot of problems though.

we're up to over 700 signs now and if anyone would like to it's very easy to just help this for a few seconds