2024 NFA direction

[WestKentucky]

2024, election year, stuff bouncing around SCOTUS, and an almost guaranteed ban panic looming just around the corner…

What’s a guy to do? Things change and legal interpretation sadly changes what is legal or not rather than codified statutory regulation. I’m curious, what seems to make the most sense for a guy like me who has no real experience with NFA paperwork and maneuvering within that realm.

NFA trust? Personal application? Silencer shop kiosk? Buy a can? Build a can? Chop a gun? Stock a pistol?

My main interest lies with building a couple cans, essentially a 30 cal rifle can and a 40 cal pistol can, possibly a 22LR can as well, but I also have interest in SBR to make a better, completely legal hunting arm for my daughter, and I would love to stock a 1911 and/or K frame.

Also for a guy with a way old misdemeanor hanging around should I get that expunged before I start the process? My understanding for the state it’s in, the process is to essentially just go pay a paperwork fee and waiting for notification that it’s completed. I feel like I’m not the only one with that situation dragging behind me and I want to get that taken care of, but with circuit court clerk hours being such that no working man can ever make it there, especially since you have to go in person, it hasn’t happened yet. It’s on the priority list though.

 

[jmorris]

2024, election year, stuff bouncing around SCOTUS, and an almost guaranteed ban panic looming just around the corner…

What’s a guy to do?

From what I have seen, a lot of them wait until everything has been bought by people that add their own VAT tax before they flip it.

 

[AlexanderA]

Also for a guy with a way old misdemeanor hanging around should I get that expunged before I start the process? My understanding for the state it’s in, the process is to essentially just go pay a paperwork fee and waiting for notification that it’s completed. I feel like I’m not the only one with that situation dragging behind me and I want to get that taken care of, but with circuit court clerk hours being such that no working man can ever make it there, especially since you have to go in person, it hasn’t happened yet. It’s on the priority list though.

Misdemeanors (except for domestic violence misdemeanors) are not disqualifying. If you can buy a Title I weapon, you can buy a Title II weapon, as long as it's legal in your state. So I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[MachIVshooter]

NFA already teeters on being unconstitutional (really, it just plain is a poll tax of sorts, but I digress...). There are still lawsuits in the pipeline about the braces, bump stock ban and other things. It's my opinon that congress is disinclined to rock the boat trying to add more weapons to it or make it more restrictive/onerous than it already is, lest they end up getting the whole thing gutted or tossed on constitutional challenges. That may change if the SCOTUS composition changes, but I wouldn't worry about it until then.