Firearms ARSENAL licensing, brady bill rules
In the late 1900's there existed such a thing as firearm arsenals (superceded recently by 'my collection of valuable guns').
States imposed taxes on firearm arsenals, such as maybe $100 per 25 gun arsenal, or 10 gun arsenal, etc, which identified you as possessing an inordinate number of firearms, as well as being, um, moreso suspect re certain things.
.. well a blast from the past, here's what I found agooglin', and note, you can & could legitmately, own an arsenal of guns, as long as you were legit in the following ways:
1994 - the Brady Bill: SEC. 204. FEDERAL ARSENAL LICENSE.
(a) Offense.--Section 922 of title 18, United States Code, as amended by section 203(a), is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
"
x) It shall be unlawful for a person to possess more than 20 firearms or more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition unless the person--
" 1) is a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, or licensed dealer;
or
" 2) has been issued an arsenal license pursuant to section 923(m).".
......(b) Arsenal License.--Section 923 of title 18, United States Code..
(1) The Secretary shall issue an arsenal license if--
(A) the applicant has--" i) filed a sworn application with the Secretary, stating--
... " I) the applicant's name, address, and date of birth;
... " II) that the applicant is at least 21 years of age; and
... " III) that the applicant is not prohibited from possessing or receiving a firearm under Federal, State, or local law;
" ii) filed with the Secretary a certificate, dated within the previous 60 days, from the chief law enforcement officer of the applicant's State of residence, stating that the applicant has not exhibited such a propensity for violence, instability, or disregard of the law as may render the applicant's possession of an arsenal a danger to the community; and
" iii) paid an arsenal license fee of $300 for a 3-year license period; and
" B) the Secretary has determined that the information in the application is accurate, based in part upon name- and fingerprint-based research in all available Federal, State, and local recordkeeping systems.
" 2) The holder of an arsenal license shall be subject to all obligations and requirements pertaining to licensed dealers under this chapter.".
Note this is a pro gun website so I don't vouch for veracity, but appears kosher, but dunno if it's still in force: http://www.firearmsandliberty.com/brady2.html
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...Brady 2 never made it. Here's a link to chapter 44 of title 18:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-44
...was to the changes proposed to the law (Brady 2) which were not passed into law.
The link I provided was to the law as it is today.
It is quite long, detailed and kind of boring.
I wasn't driving at anything, I was just adding firm evidence to what is and is not now law.
Purely reference.
"" m)(1) The Secretary shall issue an arsenal license if--
" A) the applicant has--
" i) filed a sworn application with the Secretary, stating--
" I) the applicant's name, address, and date of birth;
" II) that the applicant is at least 21 years of age; and
" III) that the applicant is not prohibited from possessing
or receiving a firearm under Federal, State, or local law;
" ii) filed with the Secretary a certificate, dated within the
previous 60 days, from the chief law enforcement officer of the
applicant's State of residence, stating that the applicant has not
exhibited such a propensity for violence, instability, or disregard
of the law as may render the applicant's possession of an arsenal a
danger to the community; and"
See Printz v. United States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printz_v._United_States
Added for brevity.
"Opposition by National Rifle Association
After the Brady Act was originally proposed in 1987, the National Rifle Association (NRA) mobilized to defeat the legislation, spending millions of dollars in the process. While the bill eventually did pass in both chambers of the United States Congress, the NRA was able to win an important concession: the final version of the legislation provided that, in 1998, the five-day waiting period for handgun sales would be replaced by an instant computerized background check that involved no waiting periods.[15]
The NRA then funded lawsuits in Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Texas, Vermont and Wyoming that sought to strike down the Brady Act as unconstitutional. These cases wound their way through the courts, eventually leading the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Brady Act in the case of Printz v. United States.
In Printz, the NRA argued that the Brady Act was unconstitutional because its provisions requiring local law enforcement officers to conduct background checks was a violation of the 10th Amendment to the Constitution (Brief Amicus Curiae of the National Rifle Association of America in Support of Petitioners, Printz v. United States, 521 U.S. 898, 1997). Based on these grounds, the NRA told the Court "the whole Statute must be voided."
In its 1997 decision in the case, the Supreme Court ruled that the provision of the Brady Act that compelled state and local law enforcement officials to perform the background checks was unconstitutional on 10th amendment grounds. The Court determined that this provision violated both the concept of federalism and that of the unitary executive. However, the overall Brady statute was upheld and state and local law enforcement officials remained free to conduct background checks if they so chose. The vast majority continued to do so.[16] In 1998, background checks for firearm purchases became mostly a federally run activity when NICS came online, although many states continue to mandate state run background checks before a gun dealer may transfer a firearm to a buyer.".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brady_Handgun_Violence_Prevention_Act