In the 70s congress passed the federal agency act (I think thatโs what it was called) allowing federal agencies to enforce agency policy as if it was law
Basically any administrative body in an agency (none of whom are democratically elected) can make up rules on a whim and enforce those rules as law with government backing
Or how they can try and bring a guy to court for selling 80% lowers and charging people for classes on finishing them. Since he technically didnโt sell them a full firearm by the ATFs definition the ATF was gonna lose the court case
Preventing that legal precedent letโs the ATF avoid future cases where someone could do the same and be legally protected because a court precedent would overshadow their policies
The NFA was created to curtail the access to automatic weapons by criminals since that was, at the time, the only people who used them. And to make money off firearm manufacturing and sales
