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by trhway 1519 days ago
>I'm just not sure how you're supposed to declare ill-gotten gains without 5th amendment worthy self-incrimination.

curiously, i think similar situation, yet different outcome - "bad guys" aren't required to register their machine guns :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act#Exceptio...

"The United States Supreme Court has ruled in Haynes v. United States that the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution exempts felons—and, by extrapolation, all other prohibited possessors—from the registration requirements of the Act. "