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In reply to the discussion: A new kind of gun-toting American [View all]gejohnston
(17,502 posts)44. The proposed ban was because of the gangster connection
the transference tax was used because the writers figured it would not be struck down.
Then U.S. Attorney General Homer S. Cummings recognized that firearms could not be banned outright under the Second Amendment, so he proposed restrictive regulation in the form of an expensive tax and Federal registration. Originally, pistols and revolvers were to be regulated as strictly as machine guns; towards that end, cutting down a rifle or shotgun to circumvent the handgun restrictions by making a concealable weapon was taxed as strictly as a machine gun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act
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Your buddy is one who suggested "if everyone were armed" (the wet dream of gun culture, particularly
Hoyt
May 2012
#15
I think my interpretation is pretty close to what he and you would like. But thanks for obfuscating.
Hoyt
May 2012
#18
No fair! You're supposed to only use the Joyce Foundation funded study from U of C
DonP
May 2012
#11
If some stranger called asking me to describe my home and personal security
Starboard Tack
May 2012
#48
I frequently get calls telling me I am elegible to lower my credit card interest rates.
GreenStormCloud
May 2012
#49
Seattle, the only place I've been to McDonalds where you had to have a coin for the restroom
ileus
May 2012
#30
And the courts need to quite showing tolerance for criminal behavior. N/T
GreenStormCloud
May 2012
#25