The National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA) is, a clear violation of the Second Amendment. In 1934, Congress enacted the nation’s first major federal gun control law. The NFA drew an arbitrary line in the sand over which firearms Americans could possess freely and which ones would be burdened with federal registration, taxation, and criminal penalties. For more than ninety years, and through thousands of criminal prosecutions, the United States Supreme Court largely ran from confronting the constitutional issues presented by the NFA. Aside from the badly botched decision in United States v. Miller , 307 U.S. 174 (1939), the Court showed no interest in deciding whether the Act was actually compatible with the Second Amendment. In the meantime, countless Americans were convicted and imprisoned simply for keeping or bearing arms. Many had never committed an act of violence. The vast majority were collectors and firearms enthusiasts whose hobbies had been transformed into federal felonies....