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I agree whole-heartedly with NFA and Richard-SIA. Darksheare, with respect you don't seem to understand the issue.

There's no new registry proposed, just an attempt to let WWII vets, their wives and their kids make use of property that was brought back from overseas, and to not have these same people go to jail over a very complex (and unjust, and unconstitutional) law.

The benefit to everyone else is that there will probably be tens of thousands of machine guns added to the list of those that can be legally purchased. The registry might go from 200,000 to 250K or 300K, perhaps even more. That means more MGs in the hands of citizens, and perhaps lower prices so that those of us who can't hope to own one now may be able to buy a piece of (very enjoyable) history.

Do I agree with licensing them, or with getting permission to buy them from your local PD? HELL NO! But the reality is that gun control was passed one salami slice at a time, and that's the only way that it'll be eliminated.

I don't own any machine guns (or other NFA weapons), nor do I deal in them. I am simply a citizen who can read the law, and who can understand the implication of this bill. To me, it is about more than prices, or even about helping our vets and their families. To me, the great benefit is to be able to say to the gun-fearing wussies of the world that "these X number of guns have been in civilian hands AND UNREGISTERED for 37+ years, WITHOUT incident. Further, now there are some 250K (or 300K or whatever number) of legal machine guns out there in civilian hands, and only ONCE since 1934 has any such gun been used in a crime (and that by a police officer)".

Darksheare, I sympathize and agree with your view that we shouldn't register guns - except in this case. Here you are quite simply wrong.

I understand teh issue well.
What I don't like is the registering of guns and amnesty that in a few years at the whim of some beauracrat may turn out to NOT be amnesty.
Do I trust any politician to protect my rights?
No.
No matter their 'intent' or the 'context'.
They can nuance it to death and I don't care.
If they really want to use this to reform laws, they should show real reform and dump the laws this is supposed to reform FIRST.
If they did that, some of the language of the bill that gun grabbers could use would be less worrisome.
Such as the words "ANY" gun.. in there.
That would include an old Stevens .22 cal.
The only thing that ancient thing would be useful for would be plinking purple martins.
But under this bill it would have to be registered as people would generally inherit them.

And I can see the gun grabbers seing inherited guns like M-1 Garands and going "look at all the assault weapons!", then use the registry list as a one stop shopping list of people to persecute.
Gun Grabbers in NY have been salivating for just such a thing.