Background checks started in '68, they didn’t become instant until like '93 because internet but they still existed, I think it was by phone back then. The rest of that isn’t around now either except for some states, the national AWB expired 21yr ago, and there’s never been national waiting periods.
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Metz@lemmy.world 1 day agoI mean Terminator 1 takes place in 1984. As far a quick search goes, there were no background checks, no assault weapon ban, no national mandate for a waiting period, …etc
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Background checks started in '68, they didn’t become instant until like '93 because internet but they still existed
They may have existed and some states imposed them but they weren’t required federally until the Brady bill in 93 .
there’s never been national waiting periods.
There was a 5 day waiting period between when the Brady bill was first enacted in 93 and when the national instant criminal background check system came online in 98
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Huh no shit TIL about that waiting period, thanks! I can’t look it up until later (at work, can fire off a message but not do research y’know) but would you happen to know how long it lasted?
Though the questionnaires in the 60s were largely ineffective and took time, unless I am mistaken they were reviewed or stored by the FBI until the ATF started existing in the early 70s, but yes “NICs” wasn’t until “I” was possible as I mentioned.
Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
How long it lasted?
Between '94 and '98, after they mandated the background checks but before they had the infrastructure to do instant background checks.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The NFA existed.
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think you could still buy machine guns. No phased plasma rifles though.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hey pal, only what you see here.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 1 day ago
What, not even one in the 40-watt range?
allcretansareliars@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
It’s really difficult to buy them even now.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The process is quite simple. It’s just the prices…
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I mean you can still buy them with a tax stamp if they’re made before '86, but you’re going to pay a lot and it’ll take some time to transfer. I think at the time that you could just walk into a gun store and buy a new Uzi.