Tax/ban?
When you put a $200 tax on a $5 dollar gun, what do you think the net effect will be? When you put the same $200 tax on a $12 piece of tubing, what do you think will happen? When you put a $200 tax on a $125 gun, it also has a very chilling effect, especially when you combine the tax with fingerprints, photographs, background checks, approval in writing from your local head of law enforcement, AND months of delay to process that paperwork, what do you think the overall effect will be? Not quite the same as an outright ban, but as close as they could legally come to it.
The only "good" thing about the NFA 34 has been that the dollar amount of the tax has not changed. So today, it is a much smaller value than it was in 1934. Of course, in 1986 they closed the registry (for all practical purposes), and until we can get enough someones with our point of view into positions of authority, we are stuck with it.
Also, go ahead and tell CNN what a crappy biased job they did. They won't listen, but tell them anyway, it can't hurt.
Heard a plan once, that if we could pull it off might actually have some chance. Goes like this. Each one of us should buy stock (one share, more if you can) in the media. CBS, CNN, whoever, they are public companies. Then, we could organise as a group, and vote our proxy to a spokesperson, and they will have a say at stockholder meetings. They don't have to do what we want (until we have a controlling interest) but they DO have to listen to us. Otherwise they violate their charter, and we can sue them. If they keep hearing the message over and over, from people who own part of their company, eventually they should take the hint! An added plus is, that as a stockholder, they will pay us dividends!