JW>=> National Firearms Act of 1934. Is that how it started, or were they 
alrea
JW>=> at it before that? How on earth did Roosevelt get that one through 
Congre
JW>=> I wonder?
JW>If my memory is correct, it was as an anti-crime bill that
JW>originated in the House.
JW>Jim
        It was a reaction to all the mayhem and bloodshed at the hands
        of bootleggers (prohibition, remember?) armed with full-auto
        tommyguns and such. Or so we were told. Ernie P.
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