I researched the wording in the bill. It's far, far worse than I originally thought.
It amends the NFA to read that there will be a 200 dollar transfer tax on "machineguns and destructive devices" in paragraph one. The following paragraph ls changed to read that there will be a 0 dollar tax on "any firearm not specified in paragraph one".
That means, boys and girls, that when this law goes into effect, ALL firearms are suddenly brought under the NFA. Machineguns and destructive devices will have a 200 dollar NFA transfer tax, and everything that is a firearm but NOT a machinegun or destructive device will suddenly have a NFA transfer tax of 0 dollars.
Not a big deal, I hear you say - so what if they want to charge me a zero dollar transfer tax. that's no money out of MY pocket. You're right, it's no money out of your pocket... but it also means that any time the anti-gunners want to, they can start applying all of the "enforcement measures" of the NFA to each and every firearm sale.
Waiting periods while the feds background you. fingerprint cards sent in to the feds every time you buy a gun. ATF surprise inspections on whatever premises you've declared will house your guns, to make sure your guns are where you said they'll be. The necessity to carry your zero dollar tax stamp along wherever you take your gun - to the range, for example. According to the NFA, that tax stamp has to be available for inspection (to prove your all taxed up) whenever and wherever the gun is. A registry so that the government, after having given you permission to exercise a right, know exactly who has what, and where they keep it.
If I realized it before Trump has even signed the bill, how long do you think it's going to take the anti-gunnes to realize it?
So, it's worse than I thought. Not only have they failed to do what was promised, they've actually sold us down the river.
Have to wait to see how it plays out in the courts, but this is potentially bad, VERY bad. It has the potential to have all of the gun control measures that the anti-gunners have ever had in their wettest dreams.
It's some of the worst written legislation I've ever seen. Instead of specifying suppressors, SBR's, SBS's, and AOW's like they led us to believe, it just blankets every firearm with an NFA tax, either a 200 dollar one or a zero dollar one, with all the baggage that comes along with that tax.
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It amends the NFA to read that there will be a 200 dollar transfer tax on "machineguns and destructive devices" in paragraph one. The following paragraph ls changed to read that there will be a 0 dollar tax on "any firearm not specified in paragraph one".
That means, boys and girls, that when this law goes into effect, ALL firearms are suddenly brought under the NFA. Machineguns and destructive devices will have a 200 dollar NFA transfer tax, and everything that is a firearm but NOT a machinegun or destructive device will suddenly have a NFA transfer tax of 0 dollars.
Not a big deal, I hear you say - so what if they want to charge me a zero dollar transfer tax. that's no money out of MY pocket. You're right, it's no money out of your pocket... but it also means that any time the anti-gunners want to, they can start applying all of the "enforcement measures" of the NFA to each and every firearm sale.
Waiting periods while the feds background you. fingerprint cards sent in to the feds every time you buy a gun. ATF surprise inspections on whatever premises you've declared will house your guns, to make sure your guns are where you said they'll be. The necessity to carry your zero dollar tax stamp along wherever you take your gun - to the range, for example. According to the NFA, that tax stamp has to be available for inspection (to prove your all taxed up) whenever and wherever the gun is. A registry so that the government, after having given you permission to exercise a right, know exactly who has what, and where they keep it.
If I realized it before Trump has even signed the bill, how long do you think it's going to take the anti-gunnes to realize it?
So, it's worse than I thought. Not only have they failed to do what was promised, they've actually sold us down the river.
Have to wait to see how it plays out in the courts, but this is potentially bad, VERY bad. It has the potential to have all of the gun control measures that the anti-gunners have ever had in their wettest dreams.
It's some of the worst written legislation I've ever seen. Instead of specifying suppressors, SBR's, SBS's, and AOW's like they led us to believe, it just blankets every firearm with an NFA tax, either a 200 dollar one or a zero dollar one, with all the baggage that comes along with that tax.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake