03-23-2022, 04:17 PM
And on that note, I have never seen a more anti-NFA sentiment amassed among the population in all my life.
Even in the "gun community" when I was growing up, any mention of abolishing the NFA was akin to blasphemy, because the older generation had grown up with it fed only the propaganda of the FDR and subsequent administrations and single digit corporate/government media sources.
Now we have the ability to look over the NFA proceedings and see how utterly inept and corrupt they were, conceived in the minds of some of the dumbest human beings to walk the halls of Congress.
The fact that we even have SBR provisions in the NFA was a literal moronic unintended inclusion by Minnesota Congressman Harold Knutson, even though AG Homer Stille Cummings never even mentioned rifles in his carefully-drafted proposal.
Shotguns were originally stipulated to be limited to the arbitrary barrel length of 16. AG Cummings didnt want to mess with rifles because he knew that would probably kill the legislation, so he just left them out entirely with the draft.
Knutson was also worried that hunters would be affected, so he wanted to make sure hunting rifles werent placed in legal jeopardy of the heavy-handed attack on the 2A, but AG Cummings assured him rifles werent even being considered.
Knutson insisted that they modify the bill to include rifles, and for extra credit, increase the restricted barrel length to 18 for both rifles and shotguns.
Thats literally where the SBS/SBR provisions came from (I dont call them laws because they violate our actual laws codified in the BoR).
This is from me studying the NFA hearings in detail.
If they wanted to use intent as part of a legal case, a good attorney could throw it back in their faces with the fact that it was never AG Cummings intent to restrict rifles at all, and the only reason any mention of rifles in the NFA exists is because one of the Congressmen was concerned about the right to keep and bear rifles.
You could also argue that these illegal provisions are very arbitrary, since the barrel length limit for rifles was amended to 16 in the 1960s, but shotguns were left to 18.
The whole thing is one of the most retarded pieces of legislation Ive ever seen, just from a basic legal standpoint.
Even in the "gun community" when I was growing up, any mention of abolishing the NFA was akin to blasphemy, because the older generation had grown up with it fed only the propaganda of the FDR and subsequent administrations and single digit corporate/government media sources.
Now we have the ability to look over the NFA proceedings and see how utterly inept and corrupt they were, conceived in the minds of some of the dumbest human beings to walk the halls of Congress.
The fact that we even have SBR provisions in the NFA was a literal moronic unintended inclusion by Minnesota Congressman Harold Knutson, even though AG Homer Stille Cummings never even mentioned rifles in his carefully-drafted proposal.
Shotguns were originally stipulated to be limited to the arbitrary barrel length of 16. AG Cummings didnt want to mess with rifles because he knew that would probably kill the legislation, so he just left them out entirely with the draft.
Knutson was also worried that hunters would be affected, so he wanted to make sure hunting rifles werent placed in legal jeopardy of the heavy-handed attack on the 2A, but AG Cummings assured him rifles werent even being considered.
Knutson insisted that they modify the bill to include rifles, and for extra credit, increase the restricted barrel length to 18 for both rifles and shotguns.
Thats literally where the SBS/SBR provisions came from (I dont call them laws because they violate our actual laws codified in the BoR).
This is from me studying the NFA hearings in detail.
If they wanted to use intent as part of a legal case, a good attorney could throw it back in their faces with the fact that it was never AG Cummings intent to restrict rifles at all, and the only reason any mention of rifles in the NFA exists is because one of the Congressmen was concerned about the right to keep and bear rifles.
You could also argue that these illegal provisions are very arbitrary, since the barrel length limit for rifles was amended to 16 in the 1960s, but shotguns were left to 18.
The whole thing is one of the most retarded pieces of legislation Ive ever seen, just from a basic legal standpoint.
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