re: #211 jaunte

$200 and fingerprints does not seem overly onerous regulation.

In 1934 when the NFA went into effect that $200 tax stamp was the equivalent of $3,561.76 today. The problem with the law isn’t that it’s onerous, it’s that it’s not onerous enough. There’s been a dramatic increase in the number of suppressors, short barreled shotguns short barreled rifles registered in the last couple of decades because the $200 assessment was never increased to match inflation. The only reason that machine guns aren’t part of this trend is the 1986 ban on the registration of new weapons in that category, so if the receiver wasn’t registered prior to then it cannot be transferred between civilians.