Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Wendigoon"
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Gangs ruled much of the big US cities since the early 1800s. They were synonymous with volunteer fire departments who competed with each other to be first on scene for the insurance company bonuses, plus being able to loot people's valuables. They fought each other regularly, especially as the waves of Irish flowed in to the Eastern cities like New York.
Those gangs worked for the politicians until Prohibition in 1920. During the first few years of Prohibition, the gangs were drowning in billions in cash-flow from alcohol, prostitution, gambling, and racketeering.
They bought the politicians, judges, legitimate businesses, and formed much of the institutions in their images, especially the Congress, FBI, and Federal bureaucracy to act as jobs programs for their deadbeat friends and loyal relatives.
The 1934 NFA was not a response to these original gangs, who held many levers of power by that point and were fully invested in the financial system.
They didn't like small-time Midwestern bank robbers like John Dillinger, Bonnie & Clyde, and Ma Barker's boys.
The NFA was specifically targeted at their rivals, like a National Sullivan Act. They mentioned John Dillinger repeatedly during the 1934 NFA Hearings. He really rubbed the Mafia establishment and the corporatist cleptocrats the wrong way because he burned mortgage records when he robbed banks at the height of the Depression.
The history we learn is all wrong, a simplified fabrication to conceal the demons in our midst.
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Have you ever read the 1934 NFA Hearings, all 5 days of them? It's far worse than you might imagine.
The original draft covered Machineguns, Short Barreled/Sawed-off Shotguns, Pistols/Handguns, Any Other Weapons, and Silencers.
On Day 1, morning 1, after the AG admitted the whole thing was unconstitutional, Congressman Harold Knutson of MN proposed the Short Barreled Rifle infringement to "protect deer hunters back home".
The original draft from AG Cummings set shotgun barrel infringements at 16", but Knutson suggested it would be stronger if they increased the barrel length to 18", and included rifles.
(He turned out to be a Nazi sympathizer at the time, and spy during the War.)
On one of the subsequent days of the hearings, the NRA President and Counsel showed up, got the pistol infringements removed, and explained to the Committee what rimfire, centerfire, semi automatic, fully automatic, revolver, automatic pistol, etc. meant.
The Committee members were grossly ignorant of the most basic of firearms knowledge. At the time, they were going to include any semi automatic firearm with a 12 round magazine as a "machinegun".
The NRA President explained the different types of automatic weapons to them, and that the function of the trigger determined automatic vs semi automatic.
Because he was an Olympic Gold Medalist pistol shooter and collector, he objected to the pistol infringement provisions, and provided examples where pistols had been used in self defense dating back to the 1800s.
His arguments got the pistols and semi autos = machineguns removed from the final draft, but Knutson's SBR infringements were inserted on the final day of the hearings when he reminded them of their conversation on day 1. It almost didn't make it into the final draft.
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