Possessing a firearm intended to be fired from the shoulder with a rifled barrel less than 16 inches in length or possessing a non-rifled shoulder fired firearms with a smooth barrel of less than 18.5 inches. You must pay a $200 tax or risk prison before exercising your second amendment rights in this fashion.
The $5 tax is for Any Other Weapon, which has a considerably more convoluted definition, but one way to create an AOW is to put a plastic handle on the front of your pistol.
Wow! I did not know any of that!
Pretty stiff penalties!
And it’s a tax on a constitutionally protected right. It will be found unlawful as soon as they finish getting the legal foundations fully fleshed out in the courts. But the major concepts of keep, bear, arms, “right of the people,” and infringed have formal legal definitions now from the Supreme Court. Only took 200 years, but now we have the full definition of the operative clause of the second amendment and in theory the unqualified command of the second amendment now has teeth.
“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
