We already have this. The feds and their state and local accomplices simply refuse to acknowledge it.
There is an Act on record. It is the Dick Act of 1902.
Too bad these “petitions” are meaningless under our constitution. Take it up with your congressmen.
Don’t need any such law. The 2nd Amendment already covers it. And the State Legislators have the right to levy a temporary tax to fund any supplies and ammo the State Legislators wish to bestow on volunteers who assemble and form a Militia group. Just like they did in the early days of this great nation.
Just what is the source/intent of the petition??
This opens the door to instant confiscation of all firearms in the country, simply because the government's criteria for mental and moral fitness will be impossible to meet.
Fortunately, this petition is also pointless because Obama does not have power to change the Constitution; and he shouldn't be given an excuse to even try.
Militias are not a federal prerogative. In common law they are formed locally, and are directed by the local Sheriff, as their legal authority, and by an elected leader if they so choose.
Posse Comitatus (the principle, not the Act), means that a Sheriff can designate any (or all) “adult persons of good character” as a member of their posse/militia, and do a Kennesaw, Georgia with them. That is, state that *by law* they are required to own a gun (with no penalty for non-compliance).
This overrides any federal gun turn-in demands, as all adult persons in that county are nominally LEOs.
No such petition is needed. The People can organize into a militia on their own authority.
An example:
http://constitution.org/mil/byl_txbx.htm
The People need no permission from anyone to form militias.
This is a trap. Just leave your address with the WHite House so they know who to get at should the Shite hit the fan! Not too smart.
No permission is needed to form a militia.
See this:
http://constitution.org/mil/byl_txbx.htm