Old Dog
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Ah, what a fine patronizing comment from a moderator. Love the ALL-caps (I took a couple years off to be a full-time college student, so I guess you got me there).What part of Presser v Illinois is so hard to understand?
We all get the possible legal ramifications of banding together and being tagged as a militia. Your cautionary statements would be well-taken, if you'd withheld the assumptions and considered the tone of your remarks.
And what you've failed to mention is that in modern times (Presser is a case from post-Civil War America) the courts still can't even agree what Presser really held. There's remains dissension about the ruling, and there have been several court cases since that spotlighted the conflict (believe one was even in Illinois, Jeff). In any case -- not all states have the same ridiculous statutes as Illinois (enacted statutes to control and regulate all organizations, drilling, and parading of military bodies and associations except those which are authorized by the militia laws of the United States per Presser).