The Worst Law Ever

The National Firearms Act (1934) was made to combat the “mob” in Chicago. It IS unconstitutional, but has never been declared so. It outlawed the gun that became popular as an “eeeevil gun,” the Thompson sub-machine gun. This gun was not nearly as ubiquitous as Hollywood would like you to think, but was the “poster gun” for anti-gun legislation after that poorly conceived law banning liquor was repealed. Today they’re working HARD trying to get rid of today’s “poster gun” for prohibition of guns, the automatic weapon, which does not fit the description for the Thompson. As usual, this gun is nor nearly as widespread in use among criminals as Hollywood would have you believe. Actually, one of the best customers for these guns is Hollywood, to use in making their misleading movies. Just to prove such laws never work is the fact that Chicago, which has some of the most restrictive anti-gun laws in the nation, ALSO has one of the highest gun murder rates in the nation (along with Washington, DC and New York City, both of whom have similarly restrictive gun laws and similarly high gun murder statistics. (The Bang Switch)