Originally Posted by
WobblyPossum
I’m with you. Fingerprints and photographs requirements are remnants of the law being old. It’s 2021 now and you can get a NICS background check done in minutes. If it’s a good enough background check to buy an AR with a 16” barrel or an actual handgun, I don’t know why it doesn’t work for buying an AR with an 11.5” barrel or a suppressor. The whole thing was intended to be a huge pain in the ass from the start. From the $200 tax, which was the equivalent of $4,000 or so back then, to fingerprints, photographs, CLEO concurrence, etc. Make it as difficult as possible to acquire these weapons legally, and the law abiding people won’t acquire many of them. Never stopped some gangster from adding a stock to an AR pistol or an auto-switch to a Glock but it sure inconveniences us.