Enactment of Gun Control has always been under the guise of stopping criminals on the surface, but history proves differently. Taxation, registration and blatant infringements are the results. Ten amendments to the US Constitution were ratified on December 5th 1791 to become known as The Bill of Rights. The utmost substantiate to the security of all the amendments is the Second, “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” The American colonists had enough firsthand experience with tyrannical rule, firearms prohibition, blatant censorship and taxation without representation. Their inherent rights had to be documented and protected. Succinct, substantial and absolutely necessary, the Second Amendment was enshrined and untouched for more than a century.
Our federal government's decade long misguided 18th Amendment - the prohibition of alcohol from 1920 to 1933 - is the root cause of the National Firearms Act of 1934. Prohibition was not effective, and drove the market underground instead. Organized criminals made millions in profit and their territories literally evolved into war zones. Before prohibition, law abiding Americans could legally own fully automatic "machine guns" without any government regulation, a right which these criminals abused. The most infamous example of such became known as the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.
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