[nvscanman]

Better than 99% of NFA transfers are suppressors and short barreled rifles. The number of full auto weapons transferred is miniscule because the Hughes Amendment ended the productioj of full auto civilian firearms. To play in that venue now is prohibitively expensive. The article talking about “loopholes” to buy machine guns is designed to induce fear and panic in the uneducated minds that make up the majority of society. This is just more of the piss poor unprofessional “journalism” we are forced to bear these days.

[Standing Wolf]

To get these particularly dangerous guns, the president is doing whatever is within his power to close loopholes in federal law...

Oh, bad guns! Bad bad dangerous evil malicious stinky extra-dangerous scary bad bad bad guns!

In full seriousness: how many fully automatic weapons or short-barreled rifles and shotguns are ever used to commit crimes?

[bunkerhill7]

Another lie in 1946:

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“Trophies to Be Made Legal in Program Under National Firearms Act
Machineguns and machine pistols, war trophies of foreign make, must be registered and deactivated to bring their possessons within the law.
For this purpose Treasury Department operatives will establish offices at police headquarters this morning and will maintain a 12-hour schedule for the next three days, from 9:00 a. m to 9:00 p. m.
Veterans possessing any firearm of foreign make can qualify themselves to keep their souvenirs lawfully by bringing them to police headquarters on any of the days today through Thursday.
After registrations, deactivation of the weapons makes them unserviceable but in no way mars the appearance of the guns as souvenirs. All guns are duly returned to their owners. Registration of guns is a nationwide program. Investigations made in recent months under the National Firearms Act have a bearing on the risk and problem of exceptionally dangerous war trophy weapons, brought or shipped to this country by veterans, falling into unauthorized hands by theft or unrecorded transfer and being put to unlawful uses never intended or contemplated by the veteran.
Already there have been committed a large number of major crimes in various sections of the country, where foreign automatic weapons, introduced as war trophies or souvenirs were used. The drive cf the Treasury Department is aimed at preventing these weapons and firearms from falling into the hands of gangsters, racketeers, bank robbers and other types of criminals.”[

“The Alcohol Tax Unit, Bureau of Internal Revenue, is charged with the enforcement of the National Firearms Act, which provides a penalty not to exceed $2,000 or imprisonment not to exceed five years, or both, in the event a person is convicted of violating any provisions of the Act. Veterans, register your foreign weapons today!”
Nov 19 1946 ‘Plattsburgh Press Republican’

[Squantos]

Taa Daaaa !

[metalurgist]

What you have here is elitist machine gun collectors worrying about the value of their machine guns going down due to an increased availability through trusts and corporations.

Private security corporations like Blackwater wouldn't be able to buy new full auto weapons without the trust and corporate exemptions.

Every time there is a mention of repeal of the Hughs Act, these elitist bastards come out and oppose it. Traitors indeed.

[Pollster1]

NFA should be repealed. There is no reason for any regulation of silencers (suppressors); they should be encouraged to protect the health of shooters and to reduce the noise signature of ranges. While there is a criminal potential in short barrel rifles and shotguns (SBR/SBS), the same potential is in pistols that can be just as concealable and powerful; regulating SBR/SBS is pointless.

As for machine guns, I don’t feel safer with those restrictions than without. Anyone with minimal mechanical skills can quickly modify a semiautomatic to full auto. The machine gun restrictions only inconvenience the law abiding citizens who will not take that legal risk, without bothering the few criminals who want full auto when they are planning a felony and don’t care if they break one more law. I never want full auto because ammo is too expensive and I prefer to place my shots.

[Joe Brower]

[basil]

I’ll take half a dozen in assorted colors!

Where does the line form? LOL!

[BCR #226]

LOL... this article is full of it. The information in it is patently misleading. I deal with NFA items and trusts every day. I’ll just say this, show me one single instance where this fear mongering claim is true.

Good luck because BATFE cannot show a single instance of it.