... states do not require firearms registrations or even limits on the types of firearms a person can own. Especially in the southern states such as Texas, a person can legally own automatic rifles or semi-automatic guns given they do not possess certain features such as an extended ammunition magazine. Alaska has similarly loose gun laws where a gun license and state background check ... ...

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... proposed the National Firearms Act of 1934. This legislation required registration, police permission and then a prohibitive tax for firearms that were deemed gangster weapons (automatic weapons, sawed-off shotguns and rifles, and silencers). This Act is the reason for the Supreme Court's last decision on the Second Amendment, United States vs. Miller. In 1938, Jack Miller and Frank Layton were indicted ... ...

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