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Originally Posted by Tennessee Gentleman
The Supreme Court disagreed. According to current case law and precedent the 1934 NFA is not an infringment on the RKBA. The Hughes Amendment is another matter.
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NO, the the supreme court only said in Miller that a sawed off shotgun wasn't a military firearm and therefore wasn't protected by the 2nd amendment. Prior to Heller and MacDonald Miller was pretty much it, and that decision pretty clearly stated that the prime purpose of the 2nd was meant to protect the military weapons of the citizen militia, and since a sawed off shotgun (the NFA weapon Miller was about) wasn't a military weapon, the NFA was OK. Automatic or silenced weapons were never addressed by that case.
You'd have to be completely intellectually dishonest to claim that an automatic weapon isn't a military weapon and then also claim that only the military can possess them.