richfolkes
05-19-2005, 11:21 AM
G'day.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) in the DOJ, as we all know was once the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in the Department of the Treasury.
Why was it in the Treasury? The ATF was an agency which was created out of the National Firearms Act of 1934. The NFA itself is a taxation law. The purpose of which was to circumvent the Second Amendment via the Internal Revenue Code.
A person who purchases a machine gun was required to pay a tax of $200.00, which in 1934 was a substantial amount of money which was around four times the price of a Thompson submachinegun and five times the monthly salary of most Americans. The payment of the tax also entailed registration and a rigourous Federal background check. Consequently, many NFA firearms were turned in because of either or both of these two things: 1) the owner could not afford the tax. 2) The owner could not pass the background checks.
As for unregistered NFA weapons, their possession constituted tax evasion, a felony punishable by large fines and up to ten years jail.
The ATF was created for the purpose of collecting the tax and registering the weapons. Hence its being a part of the Treasury.
What made the NFA possible was the secret meeting on JP Morgan's Hunt Club on Jekyll Island GA by several international bankers led by Baron Alfred Rothschild and Paul Warburg (aka Daddy Warbucks) together with Senator Nelson Aldrich and Treasury Secretary A. Piatt Andrew. The plan was to bring three items of the Communist Manifesto into American law, firstly a centralized banking system, secondly a progressive or graduated income tax and thirdly a broad based consumption tax.
The next step was to get Woodrow Wilson into the White House. They did it by persuading Theodore Roosevelt to run under the Progressive Party (Bull Moose) ticket, thereby splitting the Republican vote and giving the Democrats the victory.
In 1913, the Sixteenth Amendment came into being despite not being ratified by all the States and not changing existing tax laws nor creating new ones. Consequently, this was the "Law that Never Was". Then on December 22, 1913, the Federal Reserve Act was passed. The bulk of the congress were at home with their families for Christmas and only five senators were present, ensuring its passage.
This system thereby imposed a direct tax on individual Americans, in direct violation of the Constitution.
Woodrow Wilson also wanted to ban machineguns in 1917 by placing a rider on the Second Amendment. Unlike the Sixteenth Amendment this ploy had failed. But the cause was not lost. When Franklin Delano Roosevelt became President, he decided on a Federal law to deal with the machinegun issue of his predecessor. This was a feelgood alternative known as the National Firearms Act. FDR already had plenty of support for it because through his connections with the media, machinegun shootings had gotten the lion's share of the press. They were the first items seen on every newsreel and on the front page of the newspapers. Hence, no matter how unconstitutional the NFA was, those who opposed it were silenced because it had John Q. Public's stamp of approval. What John Q. Public wasn't told in the press was the fact that the bulk of all machinegun shootings were inter gang related and occurred in States and localitites where machineguns had already been banned outright since the turn of the century!
Next step was the Federal Firearms Act of 1938. The FFA was brought into being using the right to regulate interstate commerce stating that the individual components and raw materials of firearms were moved in interstate commerce. The purpose was to license all firearms dealers and ensure that all firearms sold by mail order were sent to persons who had the appropriate State and local permits.
Back to the ATF. The ATF, as I have mentioned earlier is a tax collection agency. This all changed in 1968 when the Federal Gun Control Act became law. Through GCA '68, the ATF was given its mandate to enforce Federal gun laws and decide what guns and ammo ordinary Amercans can and cannot own.
Since 9/11, the BATF became the BATFE under the Department of Justice.
Lo and behold, we can say, "A well regulated militia being unnecessary for the sporting purposes of any State. The privilege of the People to keep and bear Arms shall be the sole prerogative of Congress."
Yours in perfect liberty
Richard J. McLaughlin.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) in the DOJ, as we all know was once the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in the Department of the Treasury.
Why was it in the Treasury? The ATF was an agency which was created out of the National Firearms Act of 1934. The NFA itself is a taxation law. The purpose of which was to circumvent the Second Amendment via the Internal Revenue Code.
A person who purchases a machine gun was required to pay a tax of $200.00, which in 1934 was a substantial amount of money which was around four times the price of a Thompson submachinegun and five times the monthly salary of most Americans. The payment of the tax also entailed registration and a rigourous Federal background check. Consequently, many NFA firearms were turned in because of either or both of these two things: 1) the owner could not afford the tax. 2) The owner could not pass the background checks.
As for unregistered NFA weapons, their possession constituted tax evasion, a felony punishable by large fines and up to ten years jail.
The ATF was created for the purpose of collecting the tax and registering the weapons. Hence its being a part of the Treasury.
What made the NFA possible was the secret meeting on JP Morgan's Hunt Club on Jekyll Island GA by several international bankers led by Baron Alfred Rothschild and Paul Warburg (aka Daddy Warbucks) together with Senator Nelson Aldrich and Treasury Secretary A. Piatt Andrew. The plan was to bring three items of the Communist Manifesto into American law, firstly a centralized banking system, secondly a progressive or graduated income tax and thirdly a broad based consumption tax.
The next step was to get Woodrow Wilson into the White House. They did it by persuading Theodore Roosevelt to run under the Progressive Party (Bull Moose) ticket, thereby splitting the Republican vote and giving the Democrats the victory.
In 1913, the Sixteenth Amendment came into being despite not being ratified by all the States and not changing existing tax laws nor creating new ones. Consequently, this was the "Law that Never Was". Then on December 22, 1913, the Federal Reserve Act was passed. The bulk of the congress were at home with their families for Christmas and only five senators were present, ensuring its passage.
This system thereby imposed a direct tax on individual Americans, in direct violation of the Constitution.
Woodrow Wilson also wanted to ban machineguns in 1917 by placing a rider on the Second Amendment. Unlike the Sixteenth Amendment this ploy had failed. But the cause was not lost. When Franklin Delano Roosevelt became President, he decided on a Federal law to deal with the machinegun issue of his predecessor. This was a feelgood alternative known as the National Firearms Act. FDR already had plenty of support for it because through his connections with the media, machinegun shootings had gotten the lion's share of the press. They were the first items seen on every newsreel and on the front page of the newspapers. Hence, no matter how unconstitutional the NFA was, those who opposed it were silenced because it had John Q. Public's stamp of approval. What John Q. Public wasn't told in the press was the fact that the bulk of all machinegun shootings were inter gang related and occurred in States and localitites where machineguns had already been banned outright since the turn of the century!
Next step was the Federal Firearms Act of 1938. The FFA was brought into being using the right to regulate interstate commerce stating that the individual components and raw materials of firearms were moved in interstate commerce. The purpose was to license all firearms dealers and ensure that all firearms sold by mail order were sent to persons who had the appropriate State and local permits.
Back to the ATF. The ATF, as I have mentioned earlier is a tax collection agency. This all changed in 1968 when the Federal Gun Control Act became law. Through GCA '68, the ATF was given its mandate to enforce Federal gun laws and decide what guns and ammo ordinary Amercans can and cannot own.
Since 9/11, the BATF became the BATFE under the Department of Justice.
Lo and behold, we can say, "A well regulated militia being unnecessary for the sporting purposes of any State. The privilege of the People to keep and bear Arms shall be the sole prerogative of Congress."
Yours in perfect liberty
Richard J. McLaughlin.