...Biden openly campaigned on a number of
extreme anti-gun policies, including adding standard capacity magazines and all semi-automatic firearms to the list of items regulated by the NFA and banning online sales of firearms and firearm parts. In all likelihood, adding magazines to the NFA would require an act of Congress, but many other proposals would not. Instead, all that would be required is a reinterpretation by the ATF of certain concepts, most importantly, “readily convertible” NFA items. With one letter, the ATF could declare that all semi-automatic firearms are readily convertible to machine guns and as such must be surrendered, destroyed, or registered. After such a letter, any parts for these firearms could be considered the same, and that a person who purchased them had the intent to construct an NFA item....