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Saddam Hussein’s Glock

Apparently, when captured, he had a Glock 18C (the machine gun version). Said weapon was presented to the president by the folks who captured Hussein. I wonder if it was placed in the NFRTR and is in the NFA registry? If not, that would make it illegal to bring into this country.

Posted in uncategorized on July 7th, 2009 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |

7 Responses to “Saddam Hussein’s Glock”

  1. countertop Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 11:02 am

    But thats only if it was privately owned. Its not really a transferable firearm if its owned by the government. As, technically, are almost all the gifts a president receives and most objects at a Presidential library are. It sits there, on loan from the National Archives.

  2. Mikee Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 11:14 am

    And all those Soviet small arms and military vehicles scattered in military museums and used in force-on-force training at military bases nationwide – I suppose those are “illegal” in the same sense, in that they are not registered to an individual owner. But I feel pretty safe knowing they are in our military’s possession.

    The military gets to play with all sorts of interesting items that are illegal or impossible for civilians to own.

    And up at Fort Hood, in the armor museum, you can prove to your children that there were indeed US tanks in WWII with trap doors on their bottoms.

  3. Kristopher Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 1:53 pm

    The military is exempt from the NFA and GCA … says so in the CFRs.

    The POTUS can carry any weapon he damned well pleases as head of the US military.

    Getting it into the National Library would require merely an order to process the Form 4 without spending money on performing the background check, since that is exactly what was forbidden by the Hughes “May 1986” Amendment.

    I don’t approve of this crap of course, but this is the legal justification.

  4. Kristopher Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 1:54 pm

    Sorry … “Prsidential Library”. Brain fart.

  5. Sebastian Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 7:10 pm

    The President’s office can possess the firearm, but the president himself may not. If it’s in the possession of the National Archives, it’s kosher, but they can’t legally lend or transfer it to the Bush library unless it’s demiled.

    NFA makes the exemption in Section 5853 of the Internal Revenue Code:

    A firearm may be transferred without the payment of the transfer tax imposed by section 5811 to any State, possession of the United States, any political subdivision thereof, or any official police organization of such a government entity engaged in criminal investigations.

  6. countertop Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 10:19 pm

    Your wrong Sebastian. Well, sort of.

    The Presidential Libraries are overseen by the National Archives.

    The Presidential Library system is composed of thirteen Presidential Libraries. These facilities are overseen by the Office of Presidential Libraries, in the National Archives and Records Administration.

  7. countertop Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 10:21 pm

    Here’s more

    During his second term in office, President Franklin D. Roosevelt surveyed the vast quantities of papers and other materials he and his staff had accumulated. In the past, many Presidential papers and records had been lost, destroyed, sold for profit, or ruined by poor storage conditions.

    President Roosevelt sought a better alternative. On the advice of noted historians and scholars, he established a public repository to preserve the evidence of the Presidency for future generations. Beginning a tradition that continues to this day, he raised private funds for the new facility and then turned it over to the United States government for operation through the National Archives.

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