article is incorrect, silencers were not part of 1934 NFA, they were added to NFA in 1938. They were added incorrectly and as such are not subjected to the cross state line notification forms like mg, sbr and sbs are required to do. I expect sloppy writing from the msm, it would be nice if experts actually knew the subject
So, your are calling partly fake news here. Good Call!
silencers were not part of 1934 NFA, they were added to NFA in 1938.
An interesting claim. I have not been able to find an article substantiating it. The National Firearms Act was passed in 1934, then the Federal Firararms act in 1938.
Could you please cite a source (a link would be great!) that shows that silencers were not in the 1934 law, but were in the 1938 law? My understanding is the 1938 law required Federal Firearms licenses for mailing pistols across state lines, generally.
Thanks.
I found this scholarly reference. It says 1934:
” In 1934, the federal government began to regulate
machine guns, sawed-off shotguns and silencers by plac
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ing a $200 tax on such weapons to discourage their sale
(U.S. Congress, 1986b:219-220). The 1934 congressional
debates provide no explanation about why silencers were
licensed. Paulson (1996:10) opines that during the Great
Depression, poaching game was thought to be a problem
and silencers were licensed because of this concern.”
http://www.westerncriminology.org/documents/WCR/v08n2/clark.pdf