[bruoz]

The Federal government has never banned a single gun already lawfully owned by a citizen. Going back to the NFA in 1934 they required registration and taxation of machineguns and other NFA firearms but they did not ban them. Over the years they have “reclassified” certain firearms (like open bolt KG-9s, MAC 10s and the Street Sweeper) so that they fell under the NFA but it was still possible to own them. To my knowledge The only firearm that was ever banned retroactively was a batch of Chinese AK-47s that were imported with full auto capability and sold to the public. They could not be registered because imported machineguns have not been available to citizens since 1934 so they had to be turned in.

[frog in a pot]

The Federal government has never banned a single gun already lawfully owned...they required registration and taxation...

That is a helpful point. The 2018 tax on your least expensive 1911 will $1200.

[jim_trent]

> “The Federal government has never banned a single gun already lawfully owned by a citizen.”

True, but several states have banned and seized what once had been legal guns. California, NJ, Mass, and New York are a few. In fact, NY has a squad that specifically checks death certificates against gun ownership lists and shows up sometimes before the person is buried to confiscate their guns.