Zeroing out the tax stamp isn’t nothing. As we and others have pointed out, eliminating the tax stamp undercuts any remaining argument that the NFA is a tax…because there is no longer a tax involved. On top of that, cans and SBRs are in common use. That means they pass the Heller test. There’s also no text, history or tradition of regulating them which means doing so doesn’t pass the Bruen test.
There's also no real gun control argument for controlling either "silencers" (which definitely don't silence, just reduce the volume of the gunshot to levels less likely to damage hearing) or short-barreled rifles (as long arms of all sorts put together constitute very little of gun crime, almost all of which is committed with handguns). All the money to be made in reducing gun crime points to addressing illegally-possessed handguns, not in point-of-sale restrictions on new guns anyway.
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