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I’m more for just lowering taxes and spending not giving special breaks for anyone

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Starbucks didn’t set up the AI correctly

Amazon AI leaderboard had metrics that were no longer relevant

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The National Firearms Act (NFA) of 1934 is unconstitutional and arbitrary, and it must be repealed. Please consider the following arguments:

1. The NFA clearly and directly infringes upon the 2nd amendment right to keep and bear arms: The primary purpose of the 2nd amendment is not protect the right to keep and bear firearms for hunting, or competitive target shooting. The primary purpose is to ensure that the populous of our nation is armed so that they can defend themselves, their communities, and their nation from foreign and domestic enemies, up to and including foreign governments or even their own government. Therefore, the types of arms protected by the 2nd amendment specifically include what we might call "weapons of war," such as fully-automatic heavy machineguns. As a corollary, private citizens and businesses owned canons at the time the Bill of Rights was written. This precedent should not be ignored.

2. The "tax" the NFA is no longer a tax, which means it's just an unconstitutional registry and legal hurdle: When the NFA was passed, one of the requirements was that a $200 tax be paid on regulated items including automatic weapons (machineguns), suppressors (aka silencers), short-barreled rifles (SBRs), short-barreled shotguns (SBSs), any other weapons (AOWs), and destructive devices (explosives, improvised devices, large-bore weapons, and parts needed to make them). Even though it's absurd, the argument was always made that it wasn't a registry, or even an infringement, but a tax, and that the government has the right to tax. Well, as of January 1, 2026 the $200 tax was reduced to $0 per item for suppressors, SBRs, SBSs, and AOWs, while it remains at $200 for machineguns and destructive devices. So it's a tax, but it's not a tax. Also, the fee remains for some items, and not for others - it is quite arbitrary.

3. A major objective of the NFA was to combat organized crime: This hasn't worked at all. Firstly, violent crime rates have fallen and risen back and forth over the decades, seemingly unmoved one way or the other by the 1934 NFA. In 1958 they were down to 4.5/100,000, then they jumped up to 10.2 in 1980. In 2025 they were 4.0, the lowest it has been since at least 1900. But organized crime, especially in the form of corruption and fraud, has reached astounding levels, amounting to billions and billions of dollars fleeced from the public annually. The NFA does not serve the people of our nation in any way.

4. The specific rules created by the NFA are totally arbitrary, and massively ineffective: Newer technology and innovation has poked many holes in the NFA, which I will specifically address:
- Short barreled rifles (SBRs) include any rifle with a barrel under 16 inches in length. Such a rifle requires the $200 tax stamp. However, with the introduction of pistol braces to the market, which may be used instead of a buttstock, the user is functionally able to produce the same outcome.
- Automatic weapons include any firearm that will fire more than one round in succession with one trigger pull. The development of Forced Reset Triggers (FRT) and Super Safeties (SS) technically does not violate the rule, while still achieving the same rate of fire. Same outcome.
- Putting a vertical foregrip on a handgun technically turns it into an any other weapon (AOW). However, if you cant the direction of the foregrip 10% in one direction or the other it is no longer perpendicular to the firearm, and is no longer considered a vertical foregrip, therefore no longer turning the firearm into an AOW, while still achieving the same outcome.
Individually, these developments each demonstrate the arbitrary, flawed nature of the NFA. Collectively, they should be devastating. Furthermore, because of the clearly arbitrary nature of the rules, more and more honest, productive, law-abiding American citizens are placed at legal risk of violating a law they know nothing about due to clearly arbitrary distinctions in the code, the results of which have no impact on the outcome of the use of the firearms.

5. Safety First - If the writers of the NFA were truly concerned with the safety of law abiding Americans, then why would they restrict suppressors? They don't make firearms quiet to the extent that movies would have us believe, but they make them quiet enough to protect the hearing of millions of Americans who use their firearms safely and legally. It's one thing to go to the range where you are ready to shoot, and you know exactly when, how, and where you'll be shooting. But many other scenarios exist where the shooter may not have the luxury of donning the right ear protection prior to firing. Take self-defense situations, for instance. If you defend your family in your own home, you will probably not have time to put on ear protection prior to using a firearm. Shooting a firearm indoors without ear protection can be devastating for your hearing, possibly producing life-long hearing loss.

6. Unconstitutional economic discrimination: The truth is, many items regulated under the NFA can still be acquired in the United States... if you're rich. Even though the tax is no longer a tax for many items, the price of NFA items is still higher than it otherwise would be because of the restricted market that the regulation produces. Speaking again about suppressors, these incredibly simple items could be produced and sold for a fraction of their current price, and could even be integrated into many firearm designs without substantively increasing their cost if the NFA did not regulate them. Even though the $200 tax stamp is gone, many law-abiding American citizens are priced out of protecting their own hearing because of this arbitrary, unconstitutional law. And don't even get me started on machineguns. Because of the Hughes Amendment (1986), no new machineguns may be manufactured for civilian purchase in the US, so the supply of machineguns is artificially restricted such that a fully automatic AR-15 can costs tens of thousands of dollars or more. Many machineguns sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. So it's the right to keep and bear arms... if you're rich. How American is that?

7. US National Defense Readiness: One of the reasons Japan saw the invasion of the US as a non-starter was because they knew so many Americans owned firearms. The armed state of American citizens is a real deterrent to attack by our enemies, and in the event of an attack, our readiness as a nation is improved with a better armed citizenry. For small arms units, access to light and heavy machineguns is a massive force multiplier. The NFA literally hurts the readiness of our nation to defend itself from foreign adversaries.

On this 250th Anniversary of the United States of America, I propose we do the right thing, and protect the God-given rights of our people to truly keep and bear arms. Repeal the NFA in its entirety. Do away with these arbitrary, unconstitutional restrictions. There's no good reason not to.

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@hackableanimal The horse drawn plow replaced millions of workers, the steam engine replaced millions of workers, electricity replaced millions of workers, the internet replaced millions of workers, cloud services replaced millions of workers ….

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@MattisRedacted Bernie has never made a good point in his life … he is a socialist clown

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@BoSnerdley Democrats bulls can be milk cows

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@MattisRedacted I can call bullshit … which the assertions in the propaganda paper are

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@AZ2ADave @SweetTexanRose Obama didn’t really deport 5 Million, they counted anyone caught illegally crossing and denied entry as a deportation … different