[EricT.]

“Whatever the individual right to keep and bear arms might entail, it does not authorize an unlicensed individual to possess unregistered machine guns for personal use.”

I must have missed that particular line in the constitution. Is that a penumbric emanation, too?

[Dead Corpse]

Commerce clause catch-all. Remember, the NFA is a TAX provision. Using it to prohibit possession of an item is also a violation of the SCOTUS 1922 Drexel Furniture decision wherein the SCOTUS ruled that taxes cannot be used to "punish" company or individual. An excise would have been fine, but when used as a regulatory prohibition it violates the Constitution.

The BATFE is one of the most pernicious and destructive bodies operating in our government today. They have ZERO Constitutional authority to exist as they do today.

[Nebr FAL owner]

Do you honestly believe that all the automatic weapons in the possesion of the armed forces of the United States aren’t registered in one fashion or another? I was in the army & the army has all sorts of paper workwith regard to weapons custody & disposition. all the services do as gun cost money & as such the army would like if they just didn’t sprout feet one night & decide to walk out of the arms room. 8*)