From: "P.T. Anderson" <[n--re--a] at [indirect.com]>
Newsgroups: rec.guns
Subject: When does EXEMPT not mean EXEMPT?
Date: 7 Dec 1994 16:47:01 -0500


The answer is:  When the BATF is involved!

I found this little tid-bit buried in on page page 145 of the 
January/February issue of American Handgunner:

*Absurd But True:*  the BATF has classified the 1873 Henry rifle and 13 
other lever-action relics from the wild west as "ammunition feeding 
devices" and banned their future manufacture under the new Crime Bill.  
The 1873 Henry, along with the 1894 Winchester, 1860 Henry, 1863 Henry 
and other lever-actions with long tubular magazines, are all capable of 
holding more than 10 rounds of cartridges like the .38-40, .44-40 and .45 
Colt, hence they are "ammunition feeding devices" and illegal.
--end quote--

Just think, the BATF has found a way around the list of EXEMPT firearms 
by reclassifing them as "ammunition feeding devices" rather than firearms.

--
 
PT Anderson
[n--re--a] at [indirect.com]
 
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