You know? That's exactly what I was thinking earlier. $200 back then was BIG bucks. They never expected they'd not be able to keep raising that price like Biden seems to be able to do with a gallon of gas nowadays..Well, if you consider that when they first implemented this completely unconstitutional scheme, they set a price on mufflers that was incredibly prohibitive for the common populace. Consider $200 back in 1934 is equivalent to nearly $4300 today!! But, they screwed the pooch by fixing that cost. Sooooo, how would they severely discourage purchasing and controlling John Q. Public? Time. Make it take an extraordinarily long time to acquire that pesky tax stamp.
And, honestly, it works. I don't have any NFA stuff simply because I won't put up with their bulls**t! I don't want to putz with their bureaucracy and I don't want to give them any more money than I absolutely have to!!