The thing is though, if they weren’t regulated they would be used a lot more in crimes and a lot of criminals would have them. I own many suppressors and I’m not for or against them being regulated, but I do understand that with the strict regulations around them that people store them correctly for the most part and there aren’t that many out there so they don’t get stolen as much as normal firearms, felon homeboy from the hood can’t have his GF go buy one over the counter, or homebody can’t go buy one in a FTF. People are careful with them and I do see that as a good thing.
What I think is fucked up is that even with the extra paperwork, fingerprints, FBI BG check, etc PLUS paying a $200 tax why in the fuck does it take a year to get a form 4 approved? Form 1 e files can go through in a couple weeks so they can obviously process the fingerprints and BG checks quickly. The paper forms are usually in their system within a month or two of sending them in, the same system the e files go into so they’re obviously dragging it out. That’s what’s fucked up about NFA IMO.
Also you can’t buy new machine guns and register them, but if you have enough money you can buy one already in the registry and that’s ok. How does that make any sense? So you can get one still, but it just costs $20-$40K for something decent. Fucking dumb. These days most people even if they don’t have disposable income like that could still get a personal loan if they needed to buy such a thing so how does that reduce crime or anything?
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