The Hunting and Conservation Nexus of the National Firearms Act [More]
I may explore this in more detail. For now, suffice it to say a coalition of elitist Fudds and racist, anamaladjusted environmentalcases screwed posterity.
Tangentially-Related UPDATE
Why Are Short Barreled Rifles Actually Regulated in the US? [Watch]
Because those who do can.
[Via Michael G]
Background: Historically, the NRA was an education and sporting organization, with militry tie-ins, until well after the NFA was passed. It wasn’t until the ’60s that certain factions began to see gun rights threatned and a need for a pro-gun lobbying presence, and it wasn’t until an anti-Fudd coup that the NRA-ILA was finally founded in 1975. Much of this is all nicely outlined in NRA Director Robert Kukla’s “Gun Control” (1973), a history of the early anti-gun movement.