[Colonel_Flagg]

By closing this loophole, the regulation will ensure that machine guns and other particularly dangerous weapons do not end up in the wrong hands.

That'll stop criminals dead in their tracks. Because no one would EVER want to fail to register their weapon before using it in a crime.

[DuncanWaring]

To say nothing of the fact that these days a “cheap” machine-gun will run you $10,000.