1934 - National Firearms Act (NFA)

Doesn't this act OBVIOUSLY violate SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED?

In 1973 the supreme Court decided that it was “unconstitutional” for the several states to have laws on the books that banned abortion. That law stayed on the books and abortion became in many cases, birth control. On June 24th, 2022 it was overturned by the same body that had determined it to be unconstitutional. The estimated loss of human life using that method was, according to data gathered from American Life League, from 1973-2020, which was the last year they have recorded, a whopping 63.6+ MILLION unborn children’s lives were terminated. Almost the total population of France! And then the supreme Court reversed their 1973 ruling saying basically that a “mistake” had been made back then.

So the supreme Court makes mistakes…Hmmmm…. that’s a big surprise! Oh wait, no it isn’t. Since they are basically human, I say basically because what normal person would actually want the job, we can expect that they can or have made other mistakes. I won’t start listing them here.

Well, let’s take a look at one that still exists that is so obviously a mistake when you dig into the insanity behind it, that you’d have to be the village idiot not to see it. That being the National Firearms Act (NFA) of 1934. What is so special about that you may ask.

Well that was the “act” that allowed the law making branch to put restrictions on certain types of firearms claiming it was for “public safety.” The restrictions that were placed were on “machine guns”, “short barrel rifles”, “short barrel shotguns” and something they labeled as “any other weapon”. And of course that determination was left up to who knows who. But it included a pistol with a vertical grip of all things. Oh, and recently the “bump stock” which for those of you who don’t know, is the piece of plastic one up from the bottom of the graphic below. Obviously it is a “machine gun”, right? Oh, one at the bottom is the real kicker that got YouTuber Matt Hoover arrested for “conspiracy” to manufacture a machine gun. This Unconstitutional beuratcracy continually flip flops on it’s “rules” over and over. Seems to me that there is a DEFINTION somewhere that DEFINES a machine gun and it isn’t a piece of plastic, a flat piece of metal with a sketched outline or a shoe string.

What machine guns were available in 1934 when this act was passed and what was the intention behind it? Well, you see, there was a new type of gun that was being used by gangsters to enforce their will on each other and they were also being used in gunfights against the dreaded “revenuers” or as some called them “the untouchables”. These were federal law men that pretty much could do whatever they wanted with no repercussions. Sound familiar? Ruby Ridge? Waco? This was during the time of history known as “prohibition” where they had managed to get an amendment to the Constitution through outlawing alcohol for consumption. (Did you ever see an amendment outlawing marijuana? NO? Me either.)

This new kind of firearm was invented by John T. Thompson. That’s a clue! The Tommy Gun was the nick name it became known as. There were a few other machine guns, but they were large and unwieldy and needed tripods to be used. Not something anyone besides Arnold Schwarzenegger would be lugging around.

The price back then for one of these was about $200.

Now comes the OBVIOUS violation of SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. Since Congress and the Senate realized they couldn’t BAN these without being a clear violation of the 2nd amendment, they decided it was “OK” to tax them. So what they did was create an act that listed certain types of firearms to “tax”. They used the interstate commerce clause as the pretext for the "ability” to do so. Since they could “tax” interstate commerce and since firearms for all intents were manufactured in one state and then sold to people in another state they saw this as a novel way to “regulate” the sale of this list of firearms. Sneaky huh? And OBVIOUSLY a violation of the 2nd amendment BECAUSE of their intent. And since there was no real way for the average person to KNOW what was going on since mass communication was sketchy at the best back then, they managed to weasel this obvious abomination past the people and made it into “law”. Apparently ignoring the IN PURSUANCE THERE OF part of the supremacy clause which seems to be par for the course. “We can’t ban them, so let’s just tax the hell out of them so that no one could afford them” said the “psychopathic control freak powers that be” back in 1934. One major problem. You can’t CONSTITUTIONALLY tax a right. And the RIGHT to keep and bear arms is qualified with SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. A $200 weapon was obviously out of reach for the average person back then too, since the average wage for the whole population was $1,368 dollars a year. With an airline pilot being the most paid at $8,000 and a hired farm hand being paid $216 a year (room and board included) as the lowest, followed by a live-in maid at $260 a year. Think any farm hands or live-in maids or for that matter ANYONE of the population besides gangsters and politicians are going to be affording a $200 “Tommy Gun”?

So the $200 Thompson Sub-machine gun gets a $200 tax attached making the grand total come to $400. Now even those gangsters would have a problem because after all you also had to register to purchase one! What does $400 translate into modern monetary value? $8980.00!! Yes, you read that right. EIGHT THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY DOLLARS. (BTW…the link most likely will show that it is HIGHER than what I posted this stack because inflation keeps boosting it up. When I added this disclaimer it was up to $9,164.96. THANK YOU FEDERAL RESERVE! What would have done without you?) The tax itself was an increase in today’s money of $4,490 in cost to have one. Sneaky, huh? Yes, those humbugs of human beings hiding behind the curtain are SNEAKY.

Since the tax stamp didn’t go up along with the inflation rate, today it is still $200. Making it quite affordable for someone to purchase one of the “restricted” items as long as they don’t mind jumping through the hoops to do so. After all, a short barrel rifle is soooooo much more dangerous than one with a 16” barrel! But Mark, they are more concealable!! As if a 9mm Glock with a 50 round drum isn’t that concealable. Or a .45 Glock 21 with a few 30 round magazines isn’t that concealable. I bet I could get into just about anywhere I want, unless there was a metal detector at the door with a Glock and a 50 round drum or a few stick magazines without anyone knowing. And that forcefield created by a gun free zone sign would surely stop me! But who uses common sense today or back then?

The National Firearms Act needs to be taken with a close look along side the recent “Bruen” decision by the supreme Court. Because BEFORE 1934 and back at the time of the 2nd amendment in 1791 did anyone administering government TAX any weapons? Were cannons taxed? Were muskets? Were Privateer’s ships? Doesn’t Bruen establish as its basis for determining the unconstitutionality of a firearm law as HISTORY and TRADITION? Isn’t TAXING a RIGHT an obvious violation? Isn’t the Hughes amendment also unconstitutional along with the 1968 Gun Control Act which bolstered the NFA? What is WRONG with these people? I know, there is nothing wrong, they simply want to CONTROL us. It’s in their genetic makeup. They are PSYCHOPATHIC CONTROL FREAKS! After all, what if Americans everywhere had M16’s instead of AR 15’s? What if WE THE PEOPLE were on PAR with those who enforce the “laws” that are obviously nothing more than tyrannical restrictions on freedom? WHAT IF those first 13 words of the 2nd amendment were still in force and effect? Wouldn’t militia members have possession of M16’s like the Swiss to this day have possession of their full auto rifles?

And that doesn’t even take into account the OBVIOUS violation of the 8th amend-ment against cruel and unusual punishment or excessive fines. Surely ANYONE can see that 10 years in a cage for not paying a $200 tax is cruel and unusual punishment and a $250,000 fine for not paying $200 is just slightly excessive for a fine. Wouldn’t you say? But no one seems to notice. No one seems to care.

And if they could use the excuse of “public safety” to TAX a right back then, what do you suppose would happen if they decided to go around the 2nd Amendment with a TAX on AR 15’s like they did on the listed items in the NFA? What if you had to pay a $4500 TAX, which is equivalent of what the 1934 $200 tax was on your AR 15 or give it up? No, I’m not trying to give them ideas, because you can bet your rear they have already thought of it. They wake their wives up (or their gay partners in the case of Pete Buttiplug) in the middle of the night and say…WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS GREAT IDEA? They did it once, so couldn’t they do it again? Why not? What is stopping them?

OH wait, maybe they realize that if they pulled that crap these days they might have a few thousand Ruby Ridge’s or Waco type situations to deal with. And their enforcers would start becoming extinct. Just think, if you have a few AR’s in different calibers or styles you could have $45,000 in taxes to keep say 10 of them. Think 10 is ridiculous? 5.56, 300 Blackout, 450 Bushmaster, 458 Socom, 50 Beowulf, 6.5 Grendel, 6.5 Creedmoor, 7.62x51 Nato, 7.62x39 Russian, 350 Legend, 22/250, .243 Winchester…there, that’s 12 .

The summary is this. The National Firearms Act along with any other “law”, “rule” or regulation that violates SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED needs to be done away with. We need to take a close look and realize that GUN FREE ZONES are not working to stop criminals, that SSRI meds are a major problem when it comes to mass murders, suicides and spontaneous murders, and that A WELL REGULATED MILITIA BEING NECESSARY TO THE SECURITY OF A FREE STATE needs to be back in force and effect. The National Firearms Act needs to go the way of Roe vs Wade and the supreme Court can simply say—they made a mistake in 1934.

UPDATE: I found this very well done research by “Forgotten Weapons” on Youtube.

I am releasing this post again with the Youtube video added so that you can get even a bigger picture of what the 1934 act was all about. ONE BIG SCREW UP!

and INDEPTH LOOK at the insanity that went on in 1934 in an advertised six part series. Unfortunately I am only able to locate four of them at this time.

Part 1 Well Regulated: The NFA hearings (1/4) – an unforgivable betrayal.

Part 2 Well Regulated: The NFA hearings (2/4) – 4/16/1934

Part 3 Well Regulated: The NFA hearings (3/4) – 4/18/1934

Part 4 Well Regulated: The NFA hearings (4/4): 5/14/1934

The above have been posted referencing 6 articles, but I can only find those four. If I find where the other two are, I will post links to them. LOTS of great posts on the rights guaranteed by the 2nd amendment by Quinn Otto-Moudry can be found HERE.

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