by:
dabneybailey
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) plan to remove the cumbersome required signature of the Chief Law Enforcement Officer (CLEO) from NFA firearms transfer requests.
WTF, that's a lot of acronyms. What's it all mean? It's pretty simple: this is going to make it easier to acquire weird guns.
Right
now, Uncle Sam has a regulation system for all of your basic firearms
like hunting rifles, pistols, and shotguns. Things get a little bit
tricky when you're talking about NFA firearms or Any Other Weapons
(AOW... yes, that's the official term). NFA firearms include machine
guns or some short-barreled shotguns, while AOWs include cane guns,
umbrella guns, or cigarette lighter guns.
If you want to own any
NFA firearms, you're required to register them with the federal
government. Transferring these devices requires the owner to submit
forms to the NFA asking for permission. The big wrench in the plans is
that the CLEO needs to sign off on both of these forms before your
request can be approved.
Worst of all, CLEOs are under no
obligation whatsoever to sign the documents, and they are fully in their
right to just outright refuse. So, if your winning charm and a "pretty
please with a cherry on top" isn't enough to sway your local CLEO then
you're SOL.
But not for long! Once this pesky barrier gets
removed, you'll automatically be one step closer to owning that machine
gun you've been dreaming about for all these years. It also opens up an
interesting loophole with AOWs. States generally prohibit AOWs, but in
states like California it's actually legal to posses AOWs if you acquire
them through an NFA transfer.
http://www.guns.com/atf-and-doj-remove-cleo-signature.html
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