Worth the read if you have any "issues" with the totally irrational NFA "rules". Of course our Hawaii "representatives" at the federal level will oppose any such amnesty with 100% vitriol, because, well, "guns". No evidence -> no need -> no guns.
[Edit at 11:50 AM: Of course this would have no bearing on the fact that Hawaii currently outlaws all such items, so...]Using Amnesty to Roll Back Second Amendment Infringementshttp://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2016/11/using-amnesty-to-roll-back-second.htmlExcerpt:
A little known law, passed concurrently with the Gun Control Act of 1968, offers the Trump administration a powerful lever. That lever can be used to roll back infringements on the Second Amendment that exist in the National Firearms Act of 1934.
The National Firearms Act (NFA) is an ill-conceived omnibus gun control legislation passed in 1934. It was poorly written by an ascendant Franklin Roosevelt administration. It was designed to outlaw the possession of handguns through draconian taxes and regulation. The tax stamp for a single item was equivalent to a years income for a laborer. Thrown in the mix were machine guns (to add some pizazz, they were not a real problem), silencers (for no known reason), and sawed off rifles and shotguns (because it made no sense to outlaw handguns, when anyone could make a handgun from a rifle or shotgun with a hack saw and 15 minutes).
Outlawing handguns was a bridge too far for Congress. They were taken out of the bill. What was left was passed as a sop to Roosevelt. After all, it only applied to machine guns, silencers, and short barreled rifles and shotguns that crossed state lines. Few people owned or used those items anyway. Even fewer took them across state lines.
Not many people paid attention to the law. There was no provision for people who failed to register their items during the initial grace period to register them afterward. A few registrations trickled in during the following decades under lenient Treasury department tax policy. The law become a bigger problem with the Supreme Court decision Wickard v. Filburn in 1942. In that decision, the court expanded federal law to apply to items that did not cross state lines.