I Must Agree

Several people in the gun community have been bringing up the Hughes Amendment, the law that bans any machine gun manufactured after 1986 from being transferred to peasants civilians. Basically people are saying the amendment wasn't legally passed and therefore should be invalidated. I'm agree with Snowflakes in Hell that this is a wasted effort.

My reasoning is slightly different though. The reason I believe this effort to be futile is because we're trying to use legal policy to repeal something that was illegally passed. This sounds good on paper but there is one hitch, it was illegally passed by the exact system that makes legal policies. We'd be asking those who make the law to admit they were wrong and then get them to repeal said law. That doesn't usually work because our government has a habit of never admitting failure and on the rare occasion they do the status quo remains because they say, "Well it's been law this long so we might as well just leave it alone."

The only way we could possibly get the Hughes Amendment repealed, in my opinion, is by getting a bill through. I don't see that happening anytime soon since people seems to think machine guns are some kind of magical weapon that can destroy all of society should they become legal for lawful citizens to own (remember according to anti-gunners lawful citizens becomes blood thirsty psychopaths the second they get a gun).