• Okokimup@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Hello doppelganger. Except, I’m ex-JW, just a garden variety humanist, and have no clue what the nfa of 1934 is.

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      1 year ago

      So in the US when we want to make something illegal, and that thing happens to be a constitutional right, we levy a tax against it. Then we only issue tax stamps to very select few people, or simply refuse to issue them at all. NFA 1934 is one of those weird tax scheme that makes you obtain a $200 tax stamp to have certain types of weapons. They are heavily controlled and non-transferable without going through a similar process.

      Here’s more info about it if you care to look into it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act

      We also did this with Marijuana during that same time: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marihuana_Tax_Act_of_1937