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To: faithhopecharity
unconstitutional on its face
... even the most reluctant, leftist, statist courts will have no choice but to overturn it

I wouldn't be so sure. The $200 tax stamp on short barreled rifles, short barreled shotguns, suppressors, and full automatic machine guns has never been successfully overturned in a court.

When the National Firearms Act was passed in 1934, a $200 tax then is about the same as a $1000 tax today.

19 posted on 04/18/2016 11:28:39 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Yo-Yo

its amazing how dead our constitutional rights are


20 posted on 04/18/2016 11:30:05 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
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To: Yo-Yo

I believe in constant dollars it was about the equivalent of $4,000.


23 posted on 04/18/2016 11:34:35 AM PDT by marktwain
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