Sam1911
Moderator Emeritus
Indeed, and in 1934, when folks were in even worse financial condition than they are today.The original $200 tax was equivalent to about $3200 in today's money.
It WAS a tax to keep the poorer class "undesirables" from buying machine guns.
We are very fortunate to have seen that dollar amount hold steady until that is no longer (as) true.
I'm not sure we should get behind another classist/racist/whatever-ist tax scheme on guns.