It’s easy to get carried away with home defense weapons these days. I’m obviously kidding. It is physically impossible to get carried away with home defense guns. (Photo provided by author.)
November 04, 2025
By Will Dabbs, MD
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Congress passed the National Firearms Act of 1934 in response to the scourge of the motorized bandit. Dillinger, Barrow, Van Meter, Capone, and others both captivated and terrified the American public. In the face of the media-fueled canard of hypothetical machinegun-toting criminals lurking behind every bush, legislators decided that something simply had to be done. That something leveraged the taxation powers of the US Congress to effectively end commerce in machineguns, sound...
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