FACT - Ronald Reagan made it illegal for gun manufacturers to manufacture full autos for civilians like us to buy. This has caused the existing full autos to reach a price that the average American can't afford along with the fact that we have to pay a $200 tax and get treated like a criminal just to exercise a God given right. Most gun owners don't realise that Reagan did this to us or they give him a pass and make excuses for him despite the fact that he was a gun grabber.
Hey Double, I have to point something out here. My favorite President of all time, good old Ronnie Ray-Gun did not make it illegal....etc.....it was the fault of the House on this occasion. Yeah, I know, he signed the bill and could have vetoed, but I believe ol' Ron was duped in this case.
(Our current King however is no patsy, and will declare rule by decree when he takes our weapons)
I offer the following:
As debate for FOPA was in its final stages in the House before moving on to the Senate, Rep.
William J. Hughes (D-N.J.) proposed several amendments including House Amendment 777 to H.R. 4332
[4] that would ban a civilian from ownership or transfer rights of any fully automatic weapon which was not registered as of May 19, 1986. The amendment also held that any such weapon manufactured and registered before the May 19 cutoff date could still be legally owned and transferred by civilians.
In the morning hours of April 10, 1986, the House held recorded votes on three amendments to FOPA in Record Vote No's 72, 73, and 74. Recorded Vote 72 was on H.AMDT. 776, an amendment to H.AMDT 770 involving the interstate sale of handguns; while Recorded Vote 74 was on H.AMDT 770, involving primarily the easing of interstate sales and the safe passage provision. Recorded Vote 74 was the controversial Hughes Amendment that called for the banning of machine guns. Rep.
Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), at the time presiding as Chairman over the proceedings, claimed that the "amendment in the nature of a substitute, as amended, was agreed to."
However, after the voice vote on the Hughes Amendment, Rangel ignored a plea to take a recorded vote and moved on to Recorded Vote 74 where the Hughes Amendment failed.
[5][6] The bill, H.R. 4332, as a whole passed in Record Vote No: 75 on a motion to recommit. Despite the controversial amendment, the Senate, in S.B. 49, adopted H.R. 4332 as an amendment to the final bill. The bill was subsequently passed and signed on May 19, 1986 by President
Ronald Reagan to become Public Law 99-308, the Firearms Owners' Protection Act.