Repeal the NFA (national firearms act)

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The NFA was originally enacted in 1934. Similar to the current NFA, the original Act imposed a tax on the making and transfer of firearms defined by the Act, as well as a special (occupational) tax on persons and entities engaged in the business of importing, manufacturing, and dealing in NFA firearms. The law also required the registration of all NFA firearms with the Secretary of the Treasury. Firearms subject to the 1934 Act included shotguns and rifles having barrels less than 18 inches in length, certain firearms described as “any other weapons,” machine guns, and firearm mufflers and silencers.

The NFA is very outdated and there is plenty of evidence that many of the prohibitions are arbitrary and meaningless. We as a country founded on the 2nd ammendment and shouldn’t be prohibited as law abiding citizens to have these obstacles to be able to sport and hunt with restrictions on helping reduce the sound signature and barrel length for no logical reason.

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I agree. I would further say that the NFA was just a money grab and large portion of the slippery slope that facilitated control and the beginning departure from the second amendment. Words mean something in law. “Arms” turned to “firearms” and under that term and the years of its use in replacement of plain old “arms” we’ve made the two terms synonymous and every so many years eat away at the freedom of just bearing “arms”. Leave felons and hunting out of the equation. Our safety, whether from each other or a tyrannical government comes, from among other things, bearing those arms regardless of size or lethality. We have other laws on the books that are in place to deal with the abuse of the second amendment.

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100% agree