{"id":1461,"date":"2015-01-16T15:02:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2015\/01\/16\/that-damned-hughes-amendmen\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:25:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:25:01","slug":"that-damned-hughes-amendmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1461","title":{"rendered":"That Damned Hughes Amendment!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11020,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Firearm_Owners_Protection_Act&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260330160252\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Firearm_Owners_Protection_Act&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 01:56:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:429},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 12:23:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 12:23:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11021,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.lwrci.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260419022305\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.lwrci.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 12:23:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 12:23:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Firearm_Owners_Protection_Act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hughes Amendment to the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986<\/a> banned the possession of machine guns produced after May 19, 1986 except for the police, military, and Class 3 dealers. The impact of that was to make pre-1986 machine guns more valuable. It also meant that you and I will never be able to own something like shown below until, and unless, the law is amended.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been cruising Instagram the last few days searching for new product introductions that will be seen at the SHOT Show. This morning I came across this .45 ACP subgun from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lwrci.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LWRC International<\/a>&nbsp;that will be shown at SHOT.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/lwrcisubgun.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/lwrcisubgun.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>If that doesn&#8217;t make you hate the Hughes Amendment, nothing will.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hughes Amendment to the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986 banned the possession of machine guns produced after&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2368,2369,2370],"class_list":["post-1461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hughes-amendment","tag-lwrc-international","tag-submachine-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10157,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions\/10157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}