Jeremy

So it was an economic ban designed to ensure that only the wealthy could own modern firepower, which is kind of crazy because gangsters, you know, were probably pretty wealthy back then because prohibition paid really well.

Now, the true goal was the NFRTR, the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record.

And, you know, you know, registration leads to confiscation.

In 1939, we had the case US v. Miller.

The Supreme Court case that upheld the NFA was basically a setup.

The defendant, Jack Miller, was dead before the decision was handed down.

His court-appointed attorney did not even show up to argue the case.

The government argued unopposed that a sawed-off shotgun had no militia utility.

The court agreed and basically agreed because there was no one else there to tell them otherwise because Miller had died and his attorney didn't show up.

In 1986, the Hughes Amendment was added, and that proved the danger of registries, and Congress used the NFA list to ban all new machine guns for civilians.

One thing a lot of people don't know is that the Hughes Amendment was passed on a fraudulent voice vote where the nays clearly had it, but the speaker pushed it through anyway.

Yeah.

Well, yeah.

Well, they did vote and they lost the vote, but they pushed it through anyway because that's what they wanted.

So just the wealthy would get to buy what they want and the poor get what they're given.

Um, obviously under Bruin test, text history and tradition, NFA is hopefully on death's door.

Um,

There is zero historical tradition of the founding fathers taxing the ownership of standard arms or creating a federal list of owners.

Jeremy, when was the case that they said that the NFA could only go through because it was actually a tax?

Oh, okay.