Even the gun control advocates seemed to have missed this. Poll taxes are illegal. Any tax on a 'right' makes it into a privilige. Any 'capricious' non granting of a permit is also automatically demolished in this opinion.
National Shall-Issue Concealed Carry and incorporation and Scalia specifically noted that the challenge on Machinegun infringement was never performed regarding Miller and the NFA.
“Even the gun control advocates seemed to have missed this. Poll taxes are illegal. Any tax on a ‘right’ makes it into a privilige. Any ‘capricious’ non granting of a permit is also automatically demolished in this opinion.”
Yup. Some of the “bad” news of this decision is that licensing was not demolished by it. But it might as well have been. Because in the long run, the government won’t be able to charge for the licenses. Given the choice between granting free licenses and simply not bothering to license, in most cases I expect the latter to prevail.