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Congress has long used the tax power to regulate in areas of the law not
listed as a power in Article I.

According to this lawyer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-JD3rwj2zY

there is a laundry list of firearms regulations imposed through the tax
code and not the National Firearms Act of 1968, which has
firearms-specific taxes in it.

I'm guessing that Treasury just wrote a tax regulation with respect to
firearms lacking specific authority in NFA?

Obviously, in 1968, the ATF predecessor was part of ATF and later a
separate agency within Treasury. I don't think it wrote its own
regulations, some concurrence of Treasury and Justice in this period and
maybe today DHS and Justice.

But the list of stuff that is a general tax law regulatioon and not a
gun tax aw regulatioln is sur;rising... and now exceeds Congress's tax
power.

Constitutionality of the gun tax law itself isn't being reviewd by
federal courts.

I really only followed some of it.

But can I dream of non-gun federal laws being found uncostitutionsal as exceeding the tax power?
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