Sources in DC have told the NRA-ILA that, without the former's guidance, a close group of House Republicans are drafting a response to Dianne Feinstein's strengthened AWB. The bill, dubbed FOREA (pronounced "foray"), or the Firearms Owners Rights Extension Act of 2013 is designed to redirect and calm the debate on gun control in the United States following the Sandy Hook shooting which claimed 27 lives. A Texas legislator stated that proponents of gun ownership should be prepared to swallow "short term inconveniences to get long term gains" - to that end FOREA restricts the currently unregulated private sale of firearms, while heavily modifying the NFA of 1934 and the Hughes Amendment to address "odd or outmoded superficial technicalities" and as a Kentucky representative put it "bad, onerous law."  Finally, FOREA modifies the Gun Free Schools act to promote increased security.

FOREA's main pillars are:

-Create a BATFE form for the reporting of all private transfers of firearms, to be made available online or at Federal Government offices upon request. The new form, which requires the transfer recipient to write their name in ink and sign a statement acknowledging they can legally possess and purchase firearms, also requires that the make, model, and serial number be listed. As a Federal Government form and legally binding document, lying on the proposed form would be a Federal crime carrying a substantial (TBD) sentence. The form need not be handed on to the government in any way but must kept at the seller's place of residence or in another easily accessible location for a minimum of one year, after which point it may be destroyed. Within the year that the form must be kept FOREA requires sellers to produce the form for law enforcement on request and gives them 48 hours to do so. The loss or accidental destruction of the form carries no penalty if it is reported to the BATFE promptly, however, if a seller reports more than three forms in a year, they may be subject to investigation. The entire "temporary bound book" process may be bypassed if the seller runs the name of the recipient through the NICS, which will be made available to all citizens free of charge over the web and by automated phone. If the NICS check is clean the form may be immediately discarded. The NICS for all system (rebranded Safe Seller's GunChek under FOREA) requires only the recipient's name and state. If the check returns a negative result (buyer is a prohibited person) then the seller is directed to web form or voice questionnaire which then, and only then, requests the make, model and serial number of the firearm. Completing the GunChek process absolves the seller of all liability for unknowingly selling to a prohibited person.

-Modify existing gun laws to expand firearms freedom in the United States. FOREA modifies the NFA of 1934 by reclassifying suppressors, smoothbore pistols, short barreled rifles and shotguns, as Title "1 - Special" items - legal for over the counter sale without an enhanced background check or waiting period (by any FFL which is authorized to sell new production firearms) but still requiring the payment of a $200 tax stamp if bought from an FFL (private to private transfers require recording as outline above, but are free). FOREA alters the controversial Hughes Amendment to the Firearms Owners Protection Act of 1986 by allowing the BATFE to grant any private citizen submitting a Form 1 the privilege to manufacture a new machine gun or convert an existing firearm to full auto, while still banning the commercial manufacture of such weapons for civilian use.

-Modify the Gun Free Schools Act to permit duly authorized persons to bear arms in defense of students and faculty. FOREA allows any person that has both a concealed carry permit or the equivalent (to include no permit of any kind in states the do not require one for CCW) and written permission from the principal of the school to carry a firearm, provided it remains concealed except in emergencies, anywhere on school grounds.

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Yeah, I don't know.

allowing the BATFE to grant any private citizen submitting a Form 1 the privilege to manufacture a new machine gun or convert an existing firearm to full auto

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That sounds like a win to me.  How many of us keep equivalent or even better records than what would be required?

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This is from an email which is making the rounds to people on my gun club's email list, and I've seen it in a few other places. Take it with a grain of salt, but let's discuss the implications of it as if it were real:



So is it time to rejoice of begin burying my stockpile?

I actually like the law, the first provision is easily evaded and not too onerous while allowing antis to say they "closed the gun show loophole" and it grants us a lot of other things which we had previously been denied.

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It might pass without that, the libs are afraid of machine guns the most it seems.

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I would be fine with it, but the whole NFA change stuff would get torn apart.  Honestly this would be modified and amended so much it wouldn't look the same in the end. By the time it got through the process it would probably screw us too.

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I would be fine with it, but the whole NFA change stuff would get torn apart.  Honestly this would be modified and amended so much it wouldn't look the same in the end. By the time it got through the process it would probably screw us too.

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FOPA comes to mind...

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I would give up FTF and shit, even magazine restrictions, to get the NFA registry reopened, cash and carry suppressors.

Fuck, I would register my AR if it meant the registry got opened up.

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The thing that scares me is the last time the country was so unable to compromise on an issue this big we no-compromised ourselves into a Civil War. We had compromised on slavery and states' rights before and then both sides decided to stop compromising, and boom!

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I would give up FTF and shit, even magazine restrictions, to get the NFA registry reopened, cash and carry suppressors.



Fuck, I would register my AR if it meant the registry got opened up.

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I would give up FTF and shit, even magazine restrictions, to get the NFA registry reopened, cash and carry suppressors.

Fuck, I would register my AR if it meant the registry got opened up.

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I would support that

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Never happen

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You shouldn't.

The ability to get neat toys should not precede the more important battle of preventing further infringement.

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Hold the phone. So the tax stamp would only be required if the item was purchased from an FFL. What about if someone makes a suppressor or a sbr or sbs or sbp or goes with the form 1 and some Sten mk2 blueprints? Loophole, thy name is free?

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Hmmmm...Much as part of me wants to scream "NO FUCKING FACE TO FACE LIMITATIONS!", I find myself looking at this, in balance, as a huge win for  us if it were to go through in the proposed form we're presented with right now.

We'd gain an awful lot from this.  It's one step in the wrong direction, but several leaps in the right one.