09-16-2017, 03:56 AM
LRRPF52 Wrote:Discharging a firearm inside my home in an emergency isn't an inane argument, nor is wanting to protect the hearing of animals when hunting (horses and dogs for example).
There is no need for me to have to justify why I want or don't want to use a particular firearms accessory to some power hungry despot and any other citizens that feel I should have to make my case to them as to why I want to use that device. Especially looking at sound moderators, which aren't even weapons, this whole reality is an example of why the NFA was way off the reservation when looking at individual rights.
My understanding what drove the inclusion of suppressors in the unconstitutional 1934 NFA was their concern over poaching, as the world was in the midst of a Great Depression and some people were hunting more for food supply after losing employment. It's odd though as suppressors were not very widespread at the time, being they had only been recently invented. The logic of regulating suppressors to stop poaching falls pretty flat on its face when you accept the reality of the bow and arrow or crossbow.
Statist control freaks are going to assault your rights at every chance I guess, unless there's some other series of events we just don't know about. The gangster-on-gangster machine-gun ambushes and drive-by shootings were no justification to regulate machine-guns, but they did that too. The St. Valentines Day Massacre between Al Capone's goons and the North Side Irish Gang in Chicago happened on Feb. 14th, 1929. At the time, a lot of the legislation in States dealing with organized crime they helped create with Prohibition was focused on short barreled shotguns first, then machine-guns.
It's interesting how they use extreme cases of career criminals to justify eradicating the rights of everyone else. They tried to include handguns with the 1934 NFA, but the NRA fought that and there wasn't enough support for it, so that provision was dropped.
Thank you for posting this. It is right on the mark. Government does not belong in this issue but they violate the Constitution nonetheless.