Ok, you own a few guns and are connected enough to get a CCL in NYC. Maybe I was wrong and you're not explicitly anti-gun. Maybe you're just an elitist who thinks the common herd in fly-over country shouldn't have easy access to guns. Either way, you seem to have fallen for the ATF's line that there are/were too many gun dealers. That was my point to begin with, and I got carried away argueing with the nut who thinks having an FFL is "dishonest". Some of my hostility carried over to you, and for that I apologize.
As for the fact that anti-gunners love to portray all gun owners as "irrational", and some gun owners try to prove their rationality by favoring gun control, that's another problem.
PS: I live in a non-Class 3 state and have to go out of state to shoot full-auto firearms. I would dearly love to own a 28 Thompson or an MP-40. You're lucky.
No, there were too many pretending to be dealers. As soon as the ATF started enforcing the provisions, 230,000 of these "dealers" disappeared.