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The National Firearms Act (NFA), 73rd Congress, Sess. 2, ch. 757, 48 Stat. 1236 was enacted on June 26, 1934, and currently codified and amended as I.R.C. ch. 53. The law is an Act of Congress in the United States that, in general, imposes an excise tax on the manufacture and transfer of certain firearms and mandates the registration of those ...
Firearms subject to the 1934 Act included shotguns and rifles having barrels less than 18 inches in length, certain firearms described as “any other weapons,” machine guns, and firearm mufflers and silencers.
The National Firearms Act of 1934 was not listed as landmark by Stathis (2003) or Petersen (2001) and was rated the 140th most important enactment of the 58th Congress by Clinton and Lapinski (2006). The act was reenacted as Title II of the Gun Control Act of 1968 (60 PL 618) (Schrader 1995).
The first attempt at federal gun-control legislation, the National Firearms Act (NFA) only covered two specific types of guns: machine guns and short-barrel firearms, including sawed-off shotguns. It did not attempt to ban either weapon, but merely to impose a tax on any transfers of such weapons.
28 Σεπ 2016 · This legislation is a direct response to gang violence, this act imposed criminal, regulatory and tax requirements on weapons favored by gangsters: machine guns, silencers and sawed-off shotguns.
Firearms subject to the 1934 Act included shotguns and rifles having barrels less than 18 inches in length, certain firearms described as “any other weapons,” machineguns, and firearm mufflers and silencers.
The National Firearms Act was the US Government’s first attempt at gun control. The stated objective in the arguments that led up to the passage of the National Firearms Act in 1934 was to stem the growing violence in the streets of American cities by using the power of the tax to control the ownership and transfer of these firearms.
