[El Gato]

There have been laws since 1934 making it illegal for residents of the United States to own machine guns without special permission from the U.S. Treasury Department. Federal law allows the public to own machine guns made and registered before 1986 under certain conditions.

It used to be the Treasury department that one had to beg permission from. Now it's Justice, making obvious the lie that the NFA was just a "tax act".

But that was settled long ago when the Treasury would no longer accept the tax payment after the 1986 ban. The change took away the fig leaf of "power to tax", and left the naked violation of the second amendment obvious for all, except federal appellate judges apparently, to see.

[zeugma]

But that was settled long ago when the Treasury would no longer accept the tax payment after the 1986 ban. The change took away the fig leaf of "power to tax", and left the naked violation of the second amendment obvious for all, except federal appellate judges apparently, to see.

Well said. Have you seen the cases I cited in post 130?