What is the 1934 National Firearms Act ?
- June 26, 1934
- strict government regulation and tax of machine guns, short-barreled rifles, and silencers
- imposed a tax on the manufacturing, selling, and transporting of firearms listed in the law
- 1968 Haynes v. United States effectively gutted the National Act of 1934
transformed crime
- response to gangster culture
- Prohibition-era violence
- attempted assassination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933
- advent of the “getaway car”
Another federal law soon followed in the National Firearms Act of 1938, which required the licensing of interstate gun dealers.
Short Barreled Rifle (SBR)
- 2010 = 74,727
- 2012 = 93,486
- 2013 = 119,025
- 2014 = 137,951
- 2015 = 181,314
- 2016 = 213,594
- 2017 = 297,626
- 2018 = 345,323
- 2019 = 413,167
- 2020 = 460,544
Any Other Weapon (AOW)
- 2010 = 52,676
- 2012 = 54,649
- 2013 = 56,050
- 2014 = 56,215
- 2015 = 57,523
- 2016 = 57,777
- 2017 = 60,019
- 2018 = 60,706
- 2019 = 62,162
- 2020 = 65,398
Short Barreled Shotgun (SBS)
- 2010 = 116,462
- 2012 = 124,079
- 2013 = 130,105
- 2014 = 131,951
- 2015 = 138,393
- 2016 = 140,474
- 2017 = 146,098
- 2018 = 149,866
- 2019 = 155,021
- 2020 = 158,059
Machine Gun
- 2010 = 456,930
- 2012 = 488,065
- 2013 = 505,861
- 2014 = 512,790
- 2015 = 543,073
- 2016 = 575,602
- 2017 = 630,019
- 2018 = 638,260
- 2019 = 699,977
- 2020 = 726,951
Suppressor
- 2010 = 285,930
- 2012 = 360,534
- 2013 = 494,452
- 2014 = 571,750
- 2015 = 792,282
- 2016 = 902,805
- 2017 = 1,360,023
- 2018 = 1,489,791
- 2019 = 1,750,433
- 2020 = 2,042,719
Destructive Devices
- 2010 = 1,864,522
- 2012 = 2,064,09
- 2013 = 2,205,487
- 2014 = 2,246,742
- 2015 = 2,446,984
- 2016 = 2,545,844
- 2017 = 2,709,704
- 2018 = 2,818,528
- 2019 = 2,977,630
- 2020 = 3,180,393
Total NFA
- 2010 = 2,850,406
- 2012 = 3,184,80
- 2013 = 3,510,980
- 2014 = 3,656,649
- 2015 = 4,159,569
- 2016 = 4,436,096
- 2017 = 5,203,489
- 2018 = 5,502,474
- 2019 = 6,058,390
- 2020 = 6,634,064
Links
- https://www.atf.gov/rules-and-regulations/national-firearms-act
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act
- https://archive.org/stream/NationalFirearmsActOf1934/National_Firearms_Act_of_1934_djvu.txt
- http://www.keepandbeararms.com/NRA/NFA.htm
- http://www.recoilweb.com/origins-of-the-nfa-128767.html
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