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<blockquote data-quote="Rod Snell" data-source="post: 2794740" data-attributes="member: 796"><p>Well, yes and no. The original intent of the US Congress was to BAN OUTRIGHT machine guns and silencers for private ownership, but the NRA convinced them that would be completely unconstitutional, so Congress passed a bill to TAX and REGULATE them. Even the best of the SCOTUS opinions do not touch Congress's power to TAX and REGULATE. Look at the decision on Obamacare, which upheld the penalty as a TAX.</p><p></p><p>The really dirty deal came as an amendment to the 1986 FOPA, which, by controversial VOICE VOTE, stopped registration of new machine guns. The bill, with the poison pill thus inserted, became a "take it or leave it" dilemma for Presidential signature. Since at the time hunters were being arrested and sentenced to PRISON for merely driving through the wrong state with a hunting rifle, the consensus was to take it for the greater good, much to the disadvantage of NFA buyers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rod Snell, post: 2794740, member: 796"] Well, yes and no. The original intent of the US Congress was to BAN OUTRIGHT machine guns and silencers for private ownership, but the NRA convinced them that would be completely unconstitutional, so Congress passed a bill to TAX and REGULATE them. Even the best of the SCOTUS opinions do not touch Congress's power to TAX and REGULATE. Look at the decision on Obamacare, which upheld the penalty as a TAX. The really dirty deal came as an amendment to the 1986 FOPA, which, by controversial VOICE VOTE, stopped registration of new machine guns. The bill, with the poison pill thus inserted, became a "take it or leave it" dilemma for Presidential signature. Since at the time hunters were being arrested and sentenced to PRISON for merely driving through the wrong state with a hunting rifle, the consensus was to take it for the greater good, much to the disadvantage of NFA buyers. [/QUOTE]
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