https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/07/while_scotus_is_at_it_the_national_firearms_act_is_largely_unconstitutional.html
While SCOTUS is at It, The National Firearms
Act is Largely Unconstitutional
American Thinker, by Ted Noel
Posted By: Hazymac, 7/10/2022 7:00:50 AM
During Prohibition, Al Capone’s Chicago gang made the Thompson submachine gun a symbol of gang violence. The “Chicago Typewriter” could empty a hundred-round drum magazine in under ten seconds, and make headlines, while occasionally perforating both targets and bystanders. Congress saw an opportunity to “do something,” and “wasn’t willing to let a ‘crisis’ go to waste.” The ultimate result is the National Firearms Act of 1934 (“NFA”), which was later amended by the Gun Control Act of 1968 (“GCA”). The net result is that certain firearms and firearm-related items have seriously disfavored status, completely unrelated to anything having to do with crime or Constitution. The NFA states that for