[marktwain]

The 1938 NFA paved the way for GCA 1968. The Miller case was set up to short circuit Constitutional challenges of the NFA.

[riverrunner]

When communist/progressives/liberals want power they lie all the time.

[Yo-Yo]

One small nit: It is the Federal Firearms Act of 1938.

[publiusF27]

From the Miller decision:

Considering Sonzinsky v. United States (1937), 300 U. S. 506, 300 U. S. 513, and what was ruled in sundry causes arising under the Harrison Narcotic Act [Footnote 2] -- United States v. Jin Fuey Moy (1916), 241 U. S. 394, United States v. Doremus (1919), 249 U. S. 86, 249 U. S. 94; Linder v. United States (1925), 268 U. S. 5; Alston v. United States (1927), 274 U. S. 289; Nigro v. United States (1928), 276 U. S. 332 -- the objection that the Act usurps police power reserved to the States is plainly untenable.

The Harrison Narcotic Act precedents foreclosed the possibility of a ruling that a regulation disguised as a tax was a constitutional problem, something Justice Roberts reaffirmed in the Obamacare case.

It wasn't the last time that gun grabbers followed the legal trails blazed by drug warriors. Gonzalez v Raich led directly and immediately to the ruling in US v Stewart that a homegrown machine gun for personal use is covered under the commerce clause.

[TBP]

Repeal all of the above.