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    | Sporting Purpose – Just One of Many Problems with the 1968 Gun Control Act Submitted by: 
			
Bruce W. Krafft
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    | "The term 'sporting purpose' is imbedded throughout U.S. gun control laws, and its use is a violation of the Second Amendment."
 
 "That has been my position for decades. My brother Chris raised the issue in a speech before the Gun Rights Policy Conference some three years ago, and our dad Neal Knox was making an issue of the language in the 1980s."
 
 "The 'sporting purpose' language has been a plank in federal gun laws dating back at least to the National Firearms Act of 1934. The 1968 Gun Control Act, down to its current incarnation, institutes broad restrictions and prohibitions on a variety of firearms and ammunition, then exempt items that are deemed to be 'particularly suitable for sporting purposes,' ..." ...
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     Millwright66
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    | This an old, old story - and 'qualifying definition' myself and others have opposed from its outset with only marginal success. |  
 
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