So it makes it better for, say, tactical combat in closed in spaces, and that's why they want to punish getting short barrel rifles? And this gets around that via technicalities?
Originally the NFA had an extra tax and regulatory requirements on pistols, short barrel shotguns, and short barreled rifles. (because they were all concealable) The pistol thing proved to unpopular so they dropped it but left the SBS/SBR requirements that no longer made sense without the pistol provision.
It also had similar provisions for tax and regulations on silencers and machine guns(defined as multiple shots per human action, not by a truly automatic action, another oddity that makes it include a double barrel that fires both barrels per pull, but not a cranked gatling gun).
So it makes it better for, say, tactical combat in closed in spaces, and that's why they want to punish getting short barrel rifles? And this gets around that via technicalities?
Originally the NFA had an extra tax and regulatory requirements on pistols, short barrel shotguns, and short barreled rifles. (because they were all concealable) The pistol thing proved to unpopular so they dropped it but left the SBS/SBR requirements that no longer made sense without the pistol provision.
It also had similar provisions for tax and regulations on silencers and machine guns(defined as multiple shots per human action, not by a truly automatic action, another oddity that makes it include a double barrel that fires both barrels per pull, but not a cranked gatling gun).