Reply #117: The NFA of 1934... [View All]

[DoNotRefill]

is the last Jim Crow law on the books. In case you're not familiar with it, the NFA is the law covering machineguns and similar other weapons. It's the ONLY federal law where a person wishing to exercise their rights are required to take a tax document to their local cheif law enforcement officer (CLEO) and get the WRITTEN PERMISSION of the police to exercise that right. CLEOs have absolute discretion in signing off or not. They can (and routinely do) refuse to sign for minorities, while signing for whites. Think of the old "voter literacy tests" and you're on the right track...

This law is a stain on all of us, and if it involved ANYTHING but guns, Democrats as a whole would be screaming our heads off about the injustice of it. Since it involves guns, most of us keep our mouths shut about it. THAT is morally reprehensible.