Maybe we could try a suits for suits campaign? We'll trade [tailored] suits for [law]suits! I bet ol' Wayne would be on board with actually bothering to advance our rights then.

Yup.  BATFE used a diagram screenshot taken from their (RBT) video as evidence, but would not allow the actual video to be submitted as evidence!  Unfuckinreal.

That was not a challenge to the machine gun ban.  Instead, it was a challenge to the ATF's interpretation of the statutory language.   The plaintiff in that case argued that a private person making a machine gun and then owning it was possessing it under the authority of a governmental unit (one of the expeditions to the ban in the Hughes amendment).  The district court actually agreed with him but ruled against him anyway because he was asking for a writ of mandamus, and the denial was a discretionary act (mandamus is only available for ministerial acts).  

The Eleventh Circuit ruled that the ATF's interpretation was consistent with the statutory language in the Hughes amendment, and that a private person is banned from possession after 1986 unless in possession of a grandfathered weapon.

I am glad to find out the NRA did something, cause, um, they gave the green light to Reagan to sign that bill.

I have a tailor shop. I’ll gladly supply the suits.