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Okay, yesterday was about gun stuff. Still a few stories out there to take note of.<\/p>\n
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<\/em> bill. You could challenge a gun control bill as a 2nd Amendment violation, but Congress has the Constitutionally mandate to levy taxes.<\/p>\n So as long as there was a tax to levy, NFA was sacrosanct. The Supreme Court even upheld it as a tax bill.<\/em><\/p>\n 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Until… the Big Beautiful Bill was passed, that reduced the tax to $0.(They tried to also get the shirt-barreled rifles, and auto weapons part thrown out, but that was ruled by (a Democrat loyalist) the Senate Parliementarian not to be budget related. How something to do with a tax doesn’t apply to the budget?<\/p>\n Further, as suppressors and short-barreled firearms were included in the NFA as bearable arms, they are protected by the Second Amendment. With the tax on suppressors and short barreled firearms zeroed out, there should be no reason to keep the red tape. Guns.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Various suits are in process, notably Peterson v. United States,\u00a0 to get a ruling that with the tax at zero, there IS no tax, hence the purpose of the NFA ’34 becomes moot and all the associated bushwa of fingerprinting, special application forms, background checks, etc. can go away, or at least be reduced to the same Form\u00a0 4473 we all know I’m waiting to see how DOJ handles this – my money is on a spirited defense from the DOJ and ATF of a supposedly pro-2A administration.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Now, on the lighter side – from 2021:<\/p>\n As she has done repeatedly since 2016, Illinois State Rep. Sonya M. Harper (D) has introduced a bill to the Illinois General Assembly requiring that every round of handgun ammunition sold in the Land of Lincoln come with two serial numbers: one on the cartridge case and one on the base of the bullet itself.America’s First Freedom<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Those are UNIQUE serial numbers, by the way – every round has to have a different number.\u00a0 That article was five years ago, in 2021. Well, seems Rep. Anne Stava is walking in her wingnut footsteps and has introduced HB4414, which is the 2026 version of the bill. The text:<\/p>\n Registry, taxation ($.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.<\/p>\n Me, I was hoping they could tell us how they were going to microstamp every bullet with a unique number. 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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.\u00a0\u00a0ILGA.gov<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n