[marktwain]

Roosevelt wanted severe gun control, like Britain. The effort was mostly aimed at pistols and revolvers. The NRA rallied gun owners, and managed to have pistols and revolvers removed from the bill, leaving machine guns, sawed off shotguns and rifles, and gun muffler/silencers.

[redfreedom]

I’ve never understood banning sawed off shot guns. Musta been the “assault rifle” of that era.

[JayElBee]

Would love to see all of it repealed. Would love to see the 86 Hughes amendment overturned at a minimum.

[GailA]

btt

[Chainmail]

Repeal that sucker!

[piroque]

marked later

[Buffalo Head]

Thanks for the post.

[RandallFlagg]

As much as I would love to convert my AR to full auto legally, without worrying about spending my life in prison, I would still only use it in semi-auto for defensive situations. Full auto seems to be only for fun and suppressive fire against multiple enemies -an unlikely scenario for home defense.

Still, I would never want to make MY personal choices for self defense dictated for others, and them forced to adhere to them. Everyone should have their own choice on it.

[Paal Gulli]

There’s an old saying, “Bad news makes worse legislation.” The NFA was a kneejerk reaction to a series of high-profile crimes involving fully-automatic weapons, most notably the Mafia’s Prohibition-era use of the Thompson submachine gun, and Clyde Barrow’s (of Bonnie & Clyde) affinity for the Browning Automatic Rifle. Bonnie and Clyde, point of fact, were machine gunned to death by police the same year as the NFA was passed.

And everybody knows the rest of the story. The minute FDR signed the bill into law, The Mob carted all their machine guns down to the nearest police precinct and turned them in, and they’ve been a peaceable lot ever since. The NFA was eyewash (or hogwash, take your pick), legislators passing a bill they claimed would do exactly what they knew they were powerless to. End violent crime and guarantee public safety.

In the 82 years since, there have been exactly two homicides (and one of them by an LEO using a duty weapon) and very few crimes of any sort committed with legal full-auto weapons. This despite the fact that there are almost half a million privately-owned full-auto weapons in ‘civilian’ America hands.

But only ~176,000 of them are “transferable” under the terms of the 1986 so-called Firearms Owners’ Protection Act, which is why an M-16 can command 10x the asking price of an AR-15 (low supply, high demand).

http://www.nfatca.org/pubs/MG_Count_FOIA_2016.pdf

[JimRed]

Is the phrase “Shall not be infringed” addressed anywhere in the bill or in the hearings?

[wastedyears]

All federal firearms laws must be repealed to conform to the Constitution. Every single one. I would give up alcohol to be able to carry.