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ATF Says The Quiet Part Out Loud - The National Firearms Act was never about safety—it was always about restricting Second Amendment rights.

Posted by freedomforall 2 years, 1 month ago to Government
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"Recently while responding to criticism on X, formally known as Twitter, the Los Angeles branch of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives tweeted that the $200 tax stamp on firearms and accessories regulated by the National Firearms Act was "quite prohibitive at the time, which was the goal of the NFA."
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the 1934 National Firearms Act is an unconstitutional law that is incompatible with the Second Amendment."
SOURCE URL: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/atf-says-quiet-part-out-loud

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    Posted by mccannon01 2 years, 1 month ago
    Another example of a bureaucracy imposing legislation on the people "just because it can".

    Also from the article: "And for that matter, why is the Second Amendment treated as a second-class right? Imagine if the United States put a $200 tax on the First Amendment for the use of "dangerous" words." I figure that's on its way.
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    • Posted by $ allosaur 2 years, 1 month ago
      It's easy to imagine a $200 tax or a fine for so-called "dangerous words" when people are now being "cancelled" to the point of losing jobs for truthfully saying accurate things like "men can't give birth to babies."
      Soon to turn 77, in all my life me dino never imagined there could ever be such deranged stupidity.
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      • Posted by $ gharkness 2 years, 1 month ago
        Me too! I often thought of what craziness might be ahead, given I grew up in the sixties, but I'm afraid this is WAY beyond the pale.
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        • Posted by mccannon01 2 years, 1 month ago
          Amen to you both. Being 71 years young - soon to be 72 - I can recall thinking back in my teenage years in the '60s things were going to get better. Star Trek had its Klingons and Romulans, but future life looked pretty good. It seemed like the civil rights movement was going to do away with all the racial crap and we can finally just get along even if it wasn't heavenly perfect. I went to a racially and ethnic mixed high school and after school worked in a mixed business and most of us kids all had a good time together even if our parents may be a bit chilly or skeptical of the whole thing.

          Nobody would have or even could have guessed that "Political Correctness" would begin its rise in the mid '70s and finally morph into the full fledged insanity of wokeness we have today. Things went bad. I don't know if I will live long enough for things to get better.
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    • Posted by Aeronca 2 years, 1 month ago
      Sure! A free-speech insurance liability tax. So you can freely verbally set fire to a building and you've paid for it already!!! Speech is a privilege, just like driving, right???
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      • Posted by freedomforall 2 years, 1 month ago
        Or maybe the insurance "industry" of thieves should petition con-gress to do to freedom of speech what they did to freedom of health care.
        Oops, pesky Bill of Rights again.
        Thank you, George Mason.
        We owe you our lives, fortunes, and sacred honor, and it's about time that we back up our words with actions.
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