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February 28, 2010, 04:45 PM | #1 |
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Call me crazy about the law...
So I was talking about the rules of owning an automatic weapon... The tax, registered before 1986, etc. with a guy at work and we got to breaking it down. Does regulating automatic weapons really create a "safer" environment? For instance, IF I were a bad guy on the streets and I wanted an automatic AK47, I'd be able to find one. But for good citizens who want to add FA to their collections, we have to pay outrageous prices and look for a gun that is older than I am...
Being that the co-worker and I are both ex-military (I'm still in) I said that a well trained person with a semi-automatic rifle could be just as effective as an untrained criminal with an automatic AK47 Just looking for a reason why owning an FA is such a hassel |
February 28, 2010, 04:49 PM | #2 |
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I would argue that an untrained person with a semi auto is probably more effective than a criminal with a full auto...
No, I can't give you any reasons for any of these ridiculous regulations, there aren't any. |
February 28, 2010, 04:59 PM | #3 | |
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February 28, 2010, 11:57 PM | #4 |
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Maybe it has something to do with collecting taxes.
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March 1, 2010, 08:42 AM | #6 |
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It goes back to the 1920's - 1930's. Criminal gangs were using automatic guns to commit crimes. This was glorified in the press. Citizens were scared and it was a lot easier to pass some laws restricting and demonizing machineguns that it was for law enforcement to actually enforce the law.
It's all about appeasing the masses when your government doesn't know what else to do. |
March 1, 2010, 12:32 PM | #7 |
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Ok, I'm glad I'm not an idiot and that I am preaching to the choir... in that case
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March 1, 2010, 01:03 PM | #8 |
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And the "tax stamp" also was another federal tax evasion charge they could use to make the file thicker on organized gangsters. They rarely had any concrete evidence of actual crimes other than the "books" the gangsters kept. So another tax evasion charge looked good in court...
Also, the average joe couldn't afford the tax stamp so if they had or obtained a "controlled" weapon, they too faced federal charges easier to prosecute as tax evasion than to expect a jury to convict as the times were different and 2A infringements were very new on the large scale. well that is my uneducated redneck guess of the original intent of the "tax stamp" rules. |
March 1, 2010, 01:10 PM | #9 |
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Has the NFA tax for things like supressors and full-autos always been $200? It's a chunk of change now to be sure, but back when the NFA first passed, it would have been downright outrageous.
EDIT - Never mind, I found the answer. the NFA tax has been $200 ever since the Act passed in 1934. If the tax were to have been adjusted for inflation over the past 76 years, it would be about $3200 now. Last edited by ScottRiqui; March 1, 2010 at 01:16 PM. |
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I think, if not $200 back then, it is now at the lowest % of annual income than ever before in the history of NFA...
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March 1, 2010, 03:18 PM | #11 |
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Gun control by taxation pure and simple. If you cannot pass the security check and cannot afford the tax stamps you are effectively barred from that weapon or device. Best yet the government gets to demonize you with a criminal record if you don't play byt their unconstitutional rules and bar you from legally owning any firearm. A liberals dream that should be applied to all of us not stupid enough to be afraid of guns.
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March 1, 2010, 07:48 PM | #12 |
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There was also some ethnic bigotry behind the NFAs as well as the Sullivan Law, whereby the indirect intent was to keep guns out of the hands of Italians.
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