National Firearms Act (NFA)
The National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA) requires the registration, with the federal government, of fully-automatic firearms (termed “machineguns”), rifles and shotguns that have an overall length under 26 inches, rifles with a barrel under 16 inches, shotguns with a barrel under 18 inches, and firearm sound suppressors (termed “silencers”). The Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA) placed “destructive devices” (primarily explosives and the like, but also including firearms over .50 caliber, other than most shotguns) under the provisions of the NFA. In 1994, the Treasury Department placed revolving-cylinder shotguns and one semi-automatic shotgun under the NFA.
The GCA prohibited the importation of fully-automatic firearms for private purposes and a 1986 amendment to the Act prohibited the domestic manufacture of fully-automatics for private purposes. However, short-barreled rifles and shotguns have becoming increasingly popular for home defense and defensive-skills-based marksmanship training and competitions, and sound suppressors have become increasingly popular for marksmanship training and competitions, and for hunting.
Monday, October 5, 2015
The House Fish and Game and Marine Resources Committee will hold a hearing on Thursday, October 15, at ...
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
We think guns are supposed to be loud. Eardrum-damaging loud. Gunpowder-exploding-next-to-your-ear loud. Well, a lot of manufacturers are ...
Friday, August 21, 2015
NRA-backed hunting suppressor legislation was revisited in House committees yesterday, August 20, as previously reported.
Thursday, August 6, 2015
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signed NRA-backed House Bill 562 into law to improve a great deal of existing statutes ...
Friday, July 31, 2015
Tomorrow, August 1, all remaining pro-gun provisions of Senate File 878 will now be in effect. Starting tomorrow, ...
Friday, July 31, 2015
In May, I discussed the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ varying interpretations of the phrase “sporting ...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
The state Senate kept the status quo Monday night by passing a compromised House version of a hot-topic ...
Monday, July 13, 2015
Important NRA-backed suppressor legislation,House No. 1305, will be heard in the Joint Committee on the Judiciary tomorrow, July 14, ...
Monday, July 6, 2015
One of the state's new laws that went into effect this week repeals the prohibition against the manufacture, ...
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Today, multiple important pro-gun provisions of Senate File 878 go into effect. Gun owners in the state of Minnesota ...
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