Posted on 10/30/2019 5:51:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
“Like the author, I am very concerned about what their plans are for us once we lack the means to potentially resist those grand dreams.”
Same as the Turks’ plans for the Armenians.
All evil flows from the same toxic spring.
If I take the time to attempt to discuss with gun grabbers I will start with...
Have you EVER sexually assaulted or raped anyone?
If answer is no, I will say that we are going to cut off your ‘tallywacker’ to help cut down on rapes.
THEN they (rightfully so) say that is foolish.
Well I have never shot anyone so how does taking away MY gun help?
***Let’s gloss right over the National Firearms Act of 1934.***
The only reason the Miller Decision passed muster is Miller never showed up to contest the SCOTUS case on the 1934 firearms act. It seems he was by then dead.
He had tried to go from Oklahoma to Arkansas to rob a local bank, using a sawed off shotgun. The shotgun was what the case was over.
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1900-1940/307us174
The record shows that no arguments were made and no evidence presented on behalf of Jack Miller or the Second Amendment. The Justice Department attorneys were able to present their case without any opposition.
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0801/0801usvmiller.htm
Jack Miller, a bank robber and moonshiner with many enemies, felt the need to carry a sawed off shotgun without paying the tax.
He and his associate, Frank Layton, had the misfortune to be caught transporting it from Oklahoma to Arkansas and were arrested in June of 1938 by federal agents on charges of violating the Firearms Act.
Miller had no resources to finance his argument against the government’s appeal and it is doubtful that he had any interest in defending Constitutional rights. In fact, he died before the decision was rendered.
His body was discovered in April of 1939, with multiple .38 caliber bullet wounds. His own .45 pistol lay by his side with four rounds expended. Perhaps he had a legitimate need for that shotgun after all.
Those lamps are better than the Leg lamp in "A Christmas Story"
When looking at that price, you also have to keep in mind that a Model-A Ford was $500.
Thanks for the information.
Liberal logic:
12,000 gun homicides per year - outlaw guns.
70 drug deaths per year - legalize drugs.
Me neither.
That look on Schumer’s face says it all.
Start by DEFUNDING all armed protection for THEM and make it so they ‘lose’ their right to carry once elected to anything.
I can ‘dream’ can’t I?
12,000 gun homicides per year - outlaw guns.
70 drug deaths per year - legalize drugs.
Boy, I sure blew that. It should read;
Liberal Logic:
12,000 gun homicides per year - outlaw guns.
70,000 drug deaths per year - legalize drugs.
Nah. No real doubts about it. But there IS a remedy:
U.S. Code § 2384:
Seditious conspiracy
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
The Miller decision was lied about for 70 years by the lower courts.
The Supreme Court was presented by the government with two arguments to justify the National Firearms Act of 1934.
One argument was that a person needed to be a member of a militia in order to be protected by the Second Amendment.
The other argument was that a weapon must be useful to a militia in order to be protected by the Second Amendment.
The Miller Court didn't even respond to the first argument. If they had, they would have found that Miller was not a member of a militia and the case would have been decided against Miller. It would not have mattered what kind of arms he was keeping or bearing.
What the Court did decide was that the second argument was valid. That is, a person, whether or not that person is a member of a militia, may keep and bear arms that are useful to a militia. The Court did not have evidence regarding the usefulness of a short-barreled shotgun. For that reason, they remanded the case back to the lower court for further litigation.
Neither Miller nor his co-defendant Layton was available for further trial, so no further litigation occurred.
Many lower federal courts LIED about the Miller decision for the next seventy-five or so years, claiming that the Second Amendment protected a "collective right", presumably of organized militias.
The Heller Decision in 2008 established that the Second Amendment protects a personal right (similar to the Miller decision) but expanded the Miller decision to include weapons useful for self-defense. This would be in addition to arms useful to a militia.
True. And, although the price of new Fords is about $23K and up, I can still buy a new Ford - not through Sears, but . . .
Maybe, since Sears is going out of business, they might have some old stock from the thirties they need to dispose of . . .
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