re: #26 McSpiff

What I can’t figure out is what has changed between 1934 and today? Somehow the NFA is fine, but any attempt to bring the law into this century is an evil plot.

Oh wait, I remember now. The GOP and NRA has convinced its membership that so called ‘gun rights’ are the one thing in this world truly worth American blood and the black man in the Whitehouse just wants to rob them blind.

Sigh.

In 1934, the prevalence of guns like the Thompson in the hands of organized crime was such that public sentiment was totally in favor of laws that would keep such weapons out of the hands of anyone who wasn’t either law enforcement or military. But you’re right, this was before the NRA became a lobbying group for gun manufacturers and began selling gun owners on the idea that any regulation, no matter how innocuous, was a step towards the banning of all firearms.