Jeremy

Prohibition ended in 1933.

Federal agencies faced budget cuts.

They needed a new war, and they basically chose the war on crime.

Department of Justice used the St.

Valentine's Day massacre to sell the gangster gun crisis, and the NFA was actually pitched as a tax on criminal weapons, but the original bill attempted to register all handguns.

Now, the NRA, you may have heard of them, they helped kill the handgun portion of

But they let the rest slide.

They just took handguns out of it and didn't even try.

And that's not necessarily the NRA's fault.

It's just an oversight that ended up like fucking framing the next hundred years of our country.

Now, SBR and SBS restrictions were only in the bill to prevent people from hiding pistols.

Congress left the SBR rules in basically just as an oversight.

And we're still regulating barrel length today because of that legislative error, which is ridiculous.

The whole thing was just a ban disguised as a tax.

So they couldn't ban guns, they knew.

2A existed even in 1934, and so they decided to use taxing power.

And that was $200, the tax stamp that just went away.

But in 1934, that's roughly $4,500.

And you may have actually heard of some people trying to put the NFA taxes back, and they are putting it at $4,700.

And the reason why is because that's $200 with inflation from 1934.