THATCHER & YOUNG Lawyers Utah. Ogden, september J 6 Pat e ee Mi i 8 S s Brown ing Co 22,19 e . Gentlemen} I on certain have now obtained Reeulation firearms and machine guns and examination inorder to make at least a 88 relating have made a tenta baeies to taxes hurried report to you this morning. I have become thoroughly isfied that you cannot obtain a machine gun for experimental eaEpenes or any other purpose without.) making application for permit :and paying a tax of 3200.00, The act requires that to be’done whether the gun is sold, assigned, pledged, leased, loaned, given away, or otherwise disposed of, Manifestly the purpose of the act is to prevent as far as possible any person acquiring the possession of a machine gun except mS a under you the terms suggested to provided by Roy vossibly that the act, the manufacturer might deliver the firearm to its employee for its own purposes, I should think shat would be true... Thus Colts could undoubtedly move a machine gun from its factory to its Laboratory. there to be used by its employee in making investigations; and that surely would be true even though the laboratory I think, however, that any transaction might be in another state. by which the custody of the machine eun is transfert ‘ed from one person to another would be very carefully scrutinized by the covernment and would be approved only in cases where very clearly the transaction is bona fida within the Limits it have stated. For you to get a machine gun under those conditions would, 1 think, require that Colt's establish a laboraters here and emp Loy those who operate it. That , I assume, would be more expensive CoO and troublesome We than hope that we to paying give will be the the tax. matter further hie: to advise Yours truly, you attention finally during before THATCHER FS 3 tend ~ 2. ( Signe d) tT) PYTie F RDTP?E pDryw ROY 7 D. MTT AMOS D THATCHER