> The National Firearms Act is not a particularly good law, and in this day and age, it's been proven to also be a very ineffective one. Machine gun conversions are plentiful, and criminals are laying down a lot more fire than your average citizen can hope to match. > And then we have short-barreled firearms and suppressors, which no longer have a tax on them, but still have to go through the whole rigamarole with the ATF and be registered, even though the registration is supposed to just be a list of who all has paid the tax. > Well, the National Rifle Association and the Second Amendment Foundation also think this is stupid. They've joined forces on a new challenge to the National Firearms Act.