I'd be overjoyed if they just killed FOPA (1986)... ok time to wake up
Yeah, better wake up, because FOPA was a GOOD THING!!!
Kill the Hughes Amendment to FOPA, absolutely, kill FOPA entirely? No, NO! NO!!!
The whole point of the Hughes amendment was to make FOPA so objectionable to gun owners that it would not be passed and signed into law. A "poison pill" I believe they call it.
You can say Reagan sold us out by signing FOPA into law with the Hughes Amendment in place, but I believe he did it to provide needed protection to innocent people, the greatest good for the greatest number, etc.
And I think every gun owner who avoided conviction and serious jail time in a restrictive state they were only passing through, because of FOPA, would agree it is a good thing.
The Hughes Amendment is, I believe an infringement of our rights, and should be repealed, but we should NOT get rid of the entire FOPA in order to do that. Doing that would give the anti gun bigots what they wanted in the first place.
If you're going to argue for repeal of the Hughes Amendment, PLEASE separate it from the rest of the FOPA law.