Results of Sep 12th SHARE Act Legislative Hearing (Included HPA)

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First of all Stan machine guns were not banned but overly taxed.
The 1968 GCA only restricted foreign made firearms and put more restrictions when purchasing them.
The 1986 machine gun ban restricted new manufacturing of machine guns not the ones already in the public domain.
The 1994 assault weapon banned the furniture,"looks" not the firearms and gun owners didn't accept it hence it was allowed to expire after the dem's lost control of congress.

:confused: I didn't say the 1934 NFA banned machine guns.
Yes, the 1986 machine gun ban was on new production. But a ban is still a ban.
The 1994 assault weapons ban expired because it had a fixed term. Nothing to do with non-acceptance by gun owners. If it hadn't had an expiration date, it's unlikely it would have been repealed.

And none of what you wrote above negates my point: Gun owners bitched about all those laws, but "the fabric of American society" was not shattered, the laws were accepted, and life went on.

War is a part of politics which make politics a part of war according to Clauzwitz:

Politics and war are certainly intertwined, but politics is not war.
War is organized violence, death and destruction on a large scale.
Lobbying for, and passing, legislation in Congress ain't any of that.