In Seven Years

I've had my first short barreled rifle for just over seven years.

In that time I have been asked to show my tax stamp a total of zero times.

In that time I've seen others shooting their short barreled guns and I've never seen them asked for their stamp either.

The only time I've ever seen someone asked is with a machinegun and the examination was so cursory I think I could have used my SBR stamp to trick the range officer that it was for my illegal MG.  Oh yeah, it wasn't the cops asking about this dude's MG, it was the range officer.

Everyone knows that an unregistered SBR is illegal.  But nobody asks.

I've certainly been shooting it with uniformed cops in the next lane.  The only time one of them has asked about my SBR has been to ask, "can I shoot a couple rounds?"  With his buddy filming the fireball with his cell phone...

So, what's the explanation?

Everyone knows how simple it is to get the stamp and do this legally so everyone assumes that's what was done.

This is why the 41f crap from NFATCA rankles me so.

Honest people obey the law when nobody's looking.

Criminals don't obey the law unless someone who can arrest them is watching.

Honest people get the stamp.  Criminals are aware that nobody cares unless it's a machinegun, so they don't get the stamp.  Why waste the time, effort and money adhering to a law that won't get you noticed, let alone arrested; while committing the obvious felony of just having a gun in the first place?

The logic doesn't stand.