
Originally Posted by
mo1826
I'm fairly new to the support of gun rights so if my thoughts on this are silly, I apologize in advance. However, in my opinion they would not jump from $200 to $4k in one year.
I know we all think that these people are idiots but don't underestimate how smart they actually are when it comes to taking our rights and having you feeling thankful for what they've left you.
They would increase it incrementally over a period of time that's just small enough to make all of us, myself included, say, "We shouldn't have drawn any attention to it, just ignore it and appreciate that they're still allowing this for a tax of only $400, $900, etc." And the stories you tell your grandkids about your gun days will sound like the stories we all hear about people buying thompsons from the sears catalog.

I disagree with your incrementalism scenario. I think if the NFA ever got opened up to any kind of modification there would be a move to eliminate it completely and since the NFA community isn't very strong it would probably happen.
With the 1934 NFA completely removed, which a bunch of idiots on the internet actually think would be a good thing, all of these weapons would now be subject to the sporter clause found within the 1968 Gun Control Act and each of them would fail completely. And that would be the end of ALL machine guns, suppressors, silencers, short barrel rifles, short barrel shotguns and AOWs in a single move.
Please don't kid yourself and believe it couldn't happen if we put the 1934 NFA on the table for "discussion."
If people learn nothing else about modifying existing gun laws, please let them learn "sporter clause FIRST."
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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