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<blockquote data-quote="delta6" data-source="post: 3961048" data-attributes="member: 5182"><p>Wow..pretty lively discussion. I do not want to advise anyone what choice they could/should decide to make, but we should keep the facts straight.</p><p></p><p>The ATF does have the authority to declare an amnesty without congressional approval. Under Clinton we had another Amnesty (after the one in 1968) when they DD'd Streetsweepers, Strykers and USAS12s and note, that Amnesty was not authorized by Congress. Treasury Sec. Bentsen created it and it went on for quite a period of time, well over a year and the registration was regulated by an acceptance date not a registration date. [<em>Held, the registration period for the USAS-12, Striker-12, and Streetsweeper shotguns will close on May 1, 2001. No further registrations will be accepted after that date.</em>]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2001/02/09/01-3391/expiration-of-the-registration-period-for-possession-of-the-usas-12-striker-12-and-streetsweeper" target="_blank">Federal Register :: Request Access</a></p><p></p><p>The provision for the BAT folks to do this was in the 1968 GCA, Public Law 90-169 Oct. 22, 1968</p><p></p><p>Title II</p><p></p><p>Sec 7273</p><p></p><p>(d) The Secretary of the Treasury, after publication in the Federal Register of his intention to do so, is authorized to establish such periods of amnesty, not to exceed ninety days in the case of any single period, and immunity from liability during any such period, as the Secretary determines will contribute to the purposes of this title.</p><p></p><p>The ATF is now part of the Department of Justice and the Attorney General has taken over those duties for ATF that formerly belonged to the Secretary of the Treasury. So, theoretically, the Attorney General could declare a ninety day amnesty at any time. I am not sure how they came up with the 120 days in the current proposal, but it could easily be accomplished by declaring another amnesty after the first 90 day one expires. There is no limit in the law on how many amnesties there can be, only the length of each one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="delta6, post: 3961048, member: 5182"] Wow..pretty lively discussion. I do not want to advise anyone what choice they could/should decide to make, but we should keep the facts straight. The ATF does have the authority to declare an amnesty without congressional approval. Under Clinton we had another Amnesty (after the one in 1968) when they DD'd Streetsweepers, Strykers and USAS12s and note, that Amnesty was not authorized by Congress. Treasury Sec. Bentsen created it and it went on for quite a period of time, well over a year and the registration was regulated by an acceptance date not a registration date. [[I]Held, the registration period for the USAS-12, Striker-12, and Streetsweeper shotguns will close on May 1, 2001. No further registrations will be accepted after that date.[/I]] [URL="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2001/02/09/01-3391/expiration-of-the-registration-period-for-possession-of-the-usas-12-striker-12-and-streetsweeper"]Federal Register :: Request Access[/URL] The provision for the BAT folks to do this was in the 1968 GCA, Public Law 90-169 Oct. 22, 1968 Title II Sec 7273 (d) The Secretary of the Treasury, after publication in the Federal Register of his intention to do so, is authorized to establish such periods of amnesty, not to exceed ninety days in the case of any single period, and immunity from liability during any such period, as the Secretary determines will contribute to the purposes of this title. The ATF is now part of the Department of Justice and the Attorney General has taken over those duties for ATF that formerly belonged to the Secretary of the Treasury. So, theoretically, the Attorney General could declare a ninety day amnesty at any time. I am not sure how they came up with the 120 days in the current proposal, but it could easily be accomplished by declaring another amnesty after the first 90 day one expires. There is no limit in the law on how many amnesties there can be, only the length of each one. [/QUOTE]
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