3 ms·
I do think the prices of legal machines guns relative to the simplicity of creating one suggest that there should be some kind of NFA legal way to obtain new ma
by Glyptodon 2y ago
I do think the prices of legal machines guns relative to the simplicity of creating one suggest that there should be some kind of NFA legal way to obtain new manufacture machine guns. Could imagine even a huge tax might strike a better incentive balance for reducing behaviors alluded to in the article.
- 15155 2y agoA huge tax might prevent undesirable folks from voting, too.
- Glyptodon 2y agoI mean "preventing folks from voting" is, at least in normal times, assuming normal methods, clearly on the side of not legal, undesirable, and against the law. Meanwhile, "preventing people from owning machine guns" is widely accepted as legal, at least if they're made after a specific date. I agree that there's probably not a strong reason to assume that moving modern manufacture machine guns to a tax stamp regime with a huge tax wouldn't trigger some kind of litigation, but that seems mostly like a tangent. (And I think by default you'd assume there's no reason for the court to seconds guess the tax level of a tax without questioning the current tax stamp regime too.)