Originally Posted by
jsbhike
It is also important to remember the NRA stumped for NFA 34 and GCA 68 which are very much at the center of all of this.
So two things.
In 1934 the NRA wasn't really a political activist organization so much as they were dedicated to promoting gun safety and shooting events. That they would have a conventional view of the firearms used by Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, etc. isn't very remarkable.
And not to give them a pass on 1968 but they did very much support the 1986 Firearm Owners Protection Act which was much better than the version Hughes / Rodino wanted to pass which was basically a closed registry where no further transfers are possible and it included ALL NFA weapons (SBRs, SBSs, Suppressors, MGs and AOWs). So if you owned it in 1986 you were the final owner, no Form 5s or transfers of any kind.
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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