Yup The NFA pretty well poops on the constitution. The founders intended citizens have equal firepower to the military to keep the government straight. Of course they never could have imagined the future military capacity! I believe constitutionality we were meant to own anything the military has. Now days since the gov could wipe any of us off the earth in minutes or less it pretty well gives them an unfair advantage to be tyrants.Sure, it seems simple, but it isn't. For example, "the people." That doesn't mean all people. It's well settled that felons, the mentally ill, the underaged are excluded. Likewise, "arms" doesn't mean all arms. Nobody contends that weapons of mass destruction, such as poison gas, biological agents, or bombs are protected under the 2nd Amendment.
I've long contended that the Militia Clause of the 2nd actually expands the types of weapons permissible to civilians. If we assume, as the Founders intended, that the "constitutional militia" is universal, and includes the entire body of the people, then everybody is entitled to individually own all the weapons commonly issued to the military, including machine guns. Therefore the National Firearms Act is unconstitutional. This is a minority view, however.
And I have too often explained that the same " we the people" is exactly the very same "people" that is in the 1st Amendment.“We The People.....”; “,the right of the people to keep an bear arms shall not be infringed”.
It does not say “militia”, “hunters”, “National Guard”, “Standing Army”, “police force”, etc. The language seems very simple to me.
Yes, but we have it, and the courts (including a "conservative" Supreme Court) are likely to uphold it.The NFA pretty well poops on the constitution.
Clearly he has never heard of District of Columbia V Heller either since the "well regulated militia" is now, legally, meaningless prefatory language.I saw an article from some idiot the other day that someone should volunteer as a military reservist to own a firearm because of the word militia in the 2nd amendment. I doubt that idiot ever ssrved.
Part of what gets liberals elected, is what they promise to GIVE their constituents (who apparently have never learned that nothing is free). They are completely building their 2020 platform on what they are going to TAKE. While I believe we must be on our guard, I can see this backfiring spectacularly on them.Pretty much all of the current Dem candidates have signed on to an AWB with mandatory buy-backs, some are worse
That may be but we lost that argument back in 1934.The language seems very simple to me.