Just about everything you said just isn’t so, and never has been so.
There’s no license to own a machine gun or any other NFA-restricted firearm, and you don’t surrender your Fourth Amendment rights. It’s a one-time tax of between $5 and $200.
Its no big deal. Worst part is the wait for the ATF tech branch to finally get to your paperwork, but I’ve had stamped forms come back in as little as 28 days.
In the context of this article, my local sheriff will sign any ATF form you push in front of his secretary.
Sure, and when the Gub'ment decides it wants to inspect your weapons that are registered and you decide to not let them will they say: "Oh yeah you got Rights under the 4th Amendment, never mind...?"
Dream on Alice, Wonderland is just around the corner!
In the early 1980s, it was “so” in the State of New Mexico, in Otero County.
To legally own a full auto, one had to first obtain a Dealer level FFL which at the time, cost $200.00 per year.