Revisiting The National Firearms Act

[livingston]

Revisiting The National Firearms Act
This commentary caused me to revisit the National Firearms Act (hereafter, NFA). Perhaps there are better versions of this discussion (perhaps someone can find a PDF of the deliberations), but here is a rendering of the deliberations of the Congress on the NFA.

One of the most stark and eyebrow raising parts comes up front. It is the testimony of Homer S. Cummings, then Attorney General of the United States.

Here are some of his statements.

“The situation has become exceedingly serious … there are more people in the underworld today armed with deadly weapons, in fact, twice as many, as there are in the Army and Navy of the United States combined. In other words, roughly speaking, there are at least 500,000 of these people who are warring against society and who carrying about with them or have available at hand, weapons of the most deadly character.”

” … defines firearms to mean pistol, revolver, a shotgun having a barrel less than 16 inches in length.”

” … it defines a machine gun as any weapon designed to shoot automatically, or semiautomatically, 12 or more shots without reloading.”

This is the first draft of the NFA on which he is testifying. Note that all handguns, including revolvers, and all semi-automatic rifles, were included in the first draft of the NFA.
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[twisted]

Here is the other side.

There are a couple of petitions below in the description block, that I would encourage anyone who hasn't to sign, though it will never matter in this communist state. However should any one of us have a chance to relocate it may help increase the odds of moving to a freer state.

 

[Shadow2]

I'm not sure what the author is talking about but i see, Cummings point of view pretty obvious, a certain percentage of gun owners are being considered the armed threat and laws need to be written to disarm those half million. Or maybe I read it wrong and the a Dems want to disarm low income areas again.

 

[Shadow2]

Yea I've never known a petition never mind a gun petition to do a dam thing.

Here is the other side.

There are a couple of petitions below in the description block, that I would encourage anyone who hasn't to sign, though it will never matter in this communist state. However should any one of us have a chance to relocate it may help increase the odds of moving to a freer state.

 

[livingston]

the National Fireams Act of 1934
a bit of history
The Violent History of the National Firearms Act
From the 1900’s to the 1930’s, armed conflicts between corporations and workers erupted across several states that became known as the “Coal Wars.”

The most famous battle of the Coal Wars occurred in Logan County, West Virginia in 1921. It was called the Battle of Blair Mountain.

It started with a simple spark, as most conflicts tend to do.

Armed agents working for the Stone Mountain Coal Company evicted a woman from her home. The woman, her children and their belongings were tossed out in the rain . . . at gunpoint.

The town’s Police Chief didn’t take too kindly to the actions of the company thugs and confronted them. The men, acting on the authority of the coal company, were bold enough to tell the Police Chief that they had a warrant for his arrest.
The Violent History of the National Firearms Act - Liberty News Now