As long as we’re there…
Okay, yesterday was about gun stuff. Still a few stories out there to take note of.
Anyone remember the National Firearms Act of 1934? That’s the first big Federal gun control bill, which made automatic weapons, silencers, short barreled rifles, etc. unlawful to buy without paying an exorbitant tax ($200 then, worth around $4600 now) and a raft of identification and registration hassles. The sneaky buggers in Congress knew they would have a problem with it as is, so they decided to make it a tax bill. You could challenge a gun control bill as a 2nd Amendment violation, but Congress has the Constitutionally mandate to levy taxes.
So as long as there was a tax to levy, NFA was sacrosanct. The Supreme Court even upheld it as a tax bill.
The complaint argues that the 1937 Supreme Court case (Sonzinsky v. United States, 300 U.S. 506) held that the NFA was at its core a revenue-generating measure with its registration requirements as simply the means to verify that the tax was paid.
Until… the Big Beautiful Bill was passed, that reduced the tax to $0.(They tried to also get the shirt-barreled rifles, and auto weapons part thrown out, but that was ruled by (a Democrat loyalist) the Senate Parliementarian not to be budget related. How something to do with a tax doesn’t apply to the budget?
Further, as suppressors and short-barreled firearms were included in the NFA as bearable arms, they are protected by the Second Amendment. With the tax on suppressors and short barreled firearms zeroed out, there should be no reason to keep the red tape. Guns.com
Various suits are in process, notably Peterson v. United States, to get a ruling that with the tax at zero, there IS no tax, hence the purpose of the NFA ’34 becomes moot and all the associated bushwa of fingerprinting, special application forms, background checks, etc. can go away, or at least be reduced to the same Form 4473 we all know and love.
I’m waiting to see how DOJ handles this – my money is on a spirited defense from the DOJ and ATF of a supposedly pro-2A administration.
Now, on the lighter side – from 2021:
As she has done repeatedly since 2016, Illinois State Rep. Sonya M. Harper (D) has introduced a bill to the Illinois General Assembly requiring that every round of handgun ammunition sold in the Land of Lincoln come with two serial numbers: one on the cartridge case and one on the base of the bullet itself.America’s First Freedom
Those are UNIQUE serial numbers, by the way – every round has to have a different number. That article was five years ago, in 2021. Well, seems Rep. Anne Stava is walking in her wingnut footsteps and has introduced HB4414, which is the 2026 version of the bill. The text:
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that beginning January 1, 2027, all handgun ammunition that is manufactured, imported into the State for sale or personal use, kept for sale, offered or exposed for sale, sold, given, lent, or possessed shall be serialized. Provides that beginning January 1, 2027, any person who manufactures, causes to be manufactured, imports into the State for sale or personal use, keeps for sale, offers or exposes for sale, or who gives or lends any handgun ammunition that is not serialized is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. Provides that beginning January 1, 2027, any person who possesses in any public place any handgun ammunition that is not serialized is guilty of a Class C misdemeanor. Provides exceptions. Provides that beginning January 1, 2027, the Illinois State Police shall maintain a centralized registry of all reports of handgun ammunition transactions reported to the Illinois State Police in a manner prescribed by the Illinois State Police. Provides that information in the registry, upon proper application for that information, shall be furnished to peace officers and authorized employees of the Illinois State Police or to the person listed in the registry as the owner of the particular handgun ammunition. Provides that the Illinois State Police shall adopt rules relating to the assessment and collection of end-user fees in an amount not to exceed 5 cents per round of handgun ammunition or per bullet, in which the accumulated fee amount may not exceed the cost to pay for the infrastructure, implementation, operational, enforcement, and future development costs of these provisions. Effective immediately. ILGA.gov
Registry, taxation ($.05 a round adds up when you buy a few boxes of .22s) and a whole new database. The good news is that apparently these two dingbats have ZERO chances of getting the bill out of committee. Which is good, as Governor Pritzker has never seen a gun control bill he didn’t like.
Me, I was hoping they could tell us how they were going to microstamp every bullet with a unique number. EVERY bullet.
Category: "Your Tax Dollars At Work", Guns
Can you imagine attempting to inscribe a unique s/n on the base of every one of the millions (billions?) of 22 (in all its variations) sold in the US? Without using a scanning electron microscope?
As was pointed out years ago when this idiocy was first floated, anyone involved in a criminal enterprise would just switch to a wheelgun, no brass at the scene of the crime to inspect.
Gun grabbers gotta grab.
I don’t remember the 1934 FA, I was born 11 years later.
Am watching The Weapons Hunter on the Smithonian channel and some of these Canadian and US collectors have some assortment of full auto weapons and re built tanks, trucks and other Mil weapons….
Heavens to Betsy, nice pic of the curvy chic in the above pic, Hmmm, I’m getting a rise in my Levis (dungarees)
The serial number on a bullet thing has been around for a while. G Gordon Liddy, when he worked at the Treasury Department as a gun control specialist got wind of a congressional mandate and tax for serialized ammunition. He went to the head of the Treasury Department and dumped a 500 round box of 22lr ammo and told told him that roughly a million boxes of these were sold every year and wanted to know where to put the serial number on each and every one of them.
Their next step would be to simply ban ammo unless and until the technology to perform the demand is created and can be used. This has nothing to do with “safety” or anything other than disarming the population. The dems want to make sure that only their side has guns, like all typical fascists.
“Gun control” is never about the “guns”, it’s always about the “control”.
Also, as Leftists typically prove:
Where does she keep her knives? My guess is in her hair.
Not good keeping the knives in her hair as the old saying goes, “Hair Today Gone Tommoro.”
By the way (and I guess this should wait for the weekend thread), has anyone else been having problems getting to this site? The home page has been very slow at times; sometimes not loading at all with complaints from Safari about page being unsecure.
I did read that someone attacking the site was exploiting the “search” bar. Some code can exploit various weaknesses there.
In the early AM when I’m browsing on my Kindle (silk browser) before prepping for work, there are too many times when TAH is impossible to load, it times out.
There is also a severe lack of ads.
I especially need more information on Medicare and 12 huge mistakes that seniors make in retirement.
I see those adds on my home page. I started Medicare back in 2010 when I hit 65 and no mistakes and so far, things are Jake except for 3 hernia repairs 2 rotator repairs, a 9MM stone, gout, a few tooth implants, 6 pills a day so take my advice N a L and don’t retire
I’ve already retired twice. I can’t really call what I do nowadays “work”; but I do get paid.
Earlier today I had a problem getting on then a little while later to make a donation I got on then couldn’t get back on and shut down the PC . Just got on a few minutes ago
“Thank you for obeying our Reasonable Gun Safety Laws. Please kneel facing the trench.”
That is the end goal for sure.
D -rats, the commies/fascists they are, have never seen a tax, loss of freedom and control over others that they didn’t like.
These female Demi-Progs are all mentally ill, in addition to being extremely ignorant.