If constitutional violations can merely be outsourced to private entities exercising government-like authorities, there will need to be more affirmative protection through the legislative process itself.
The goal isn’t to make the Second Amendment safer. The goal is to make it unusable.
“All I cared about politically was to protect my wife and then my kids. That’s my only political thing I’m connected to.”
The average Democrat voter wants stricter gun control laws, all things being equal. But it’s almost never a top five or even a top 10 issue for them.
The Second Amendment is we find a very coherent framework that the supreme court has used to really reestablish what is the natural law or right to defend yourself.
Legitimate criminal enforcement against violent offenders can be handled without maintaining a rogue anti-gun bureaucracy whose mission expands every time the gun confiscation lobby wins an election.
As AWR Hawkins notes in his tweet above, gun banners have now moved beyond their traditional attempts to ban AR-15s
Cekada’s testimony and actions to date provide reasons to be optimistic that ATF is being steered toward a culture and mission more respectful of the Second Amendment.
There’s no serious historical tradition of permanently disarming peaceable citizens merely because they committed a nonviolent offense.
“Cornyn’s role in passing BCSA was an afterthought among Texas voters as they cast their votes for the Republican nominee.”
