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1934 National Firearms Act

Posted on June 26, 1934 by gwebs

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

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