Dionysusigma
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Land of freedom and democracy, indeed."The law" is not by definition ethical, just, common sense or understandable with respect to motive. It is simply the trigger point for government to use its legal monopoly on force.
Land of freedom and democracy, indeed."The law" is not by definition ethical, just, common sense or understandable with respect to motive. It is simply the trigger point for government to use its legal monopoly on force.
trying to figure out why governments put certain regulations in place is like trying to find the last digit in pie....pracitcally impossible
Yep ... thats the line the government has used for some time.1934 was the year after the repeal of Prohibition, and all of the fruits of that policy (the rise of organized crime, specifically). Al Capone had just been arrested, and Chicago gangland violence via full-auto Thompsons and shotguns concealed under overcoats was the hottest story around. It was the heyday of Bonnie & Clyde, what with their sawed off 1918 BAR and all.
There were a LOT of reasons for the Feds to look at the situation and think that the NFA might prove to be a useful tool in the fight against all of this. After all, they were experiencing a new type of crime with which they simply didn't have any experience in countering.