Meet Chad! Chad is from Caty, TX and represented NFATCA. For those who don't know, that's the National Firearms Act Trade and Collectors Association. The NFATCA is a non-profit organization exclusively for educational and charitable purposes. They do not engage in political actions. But they do make people aware of the National Firearms Act.
From Wikipedia, the NFA:
The ostensible impetus for the National Firearms Act of 1934 was the gangland crime of the Prohibition era, such as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929, and the attempted assassination of President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933.[3][4][5][6] Like the current National Firearms Act (NFA), the 1934 Act required NFA firearms to be registered and taxed. The $200 tax was quite prohibitive at the time (equivalent to $4,555 in 2023). With a few exceptions, the tax amount is unchanged.[5][6]
Originally, pistols and revolvers were to be regulated as strictly as machine guns; towards that end, cutting down a rifle or shotgun to circumvent the handgun restrictions by making a concealable weapon was taxed as strictly as a machine gun.[7]
Conventional pistols and revolvers were ultimately excluded from the Act before passage, but other concealable weapons were not.[7] Regarding the definition of "firearm", the language of the statute as originally enacted was as follows:
- The term "firearm" means a shotgun or rifle having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length, or any other weapon, except a pistol or revolver, from which a shot is discharged by an explosive if such weapon is capable of being concealed on the person, or a machine gun, and includes a muffler or silencer for any firearm whether or not such firearm is included within the foregoing definition.[8]
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