Posted on 12/23/2019 2:17:25 AM PST by WWG1WWA
Over the last few months, Virginia Democrats have worked to pass extreme gun control measures in the state. In fact, a Democratic congressmen went as far as to say that the National Guard my have to be used in order to enforce a door-to-door gun grab.
“And ultimately, I’m not the governor, but the governor may have to nationalize the National Guard to enforce the law,” Rep. Donald McEachin said, according to Newsweek. “That’s his call, because I don’t know how serious these counties are and how severe the violations of law will be. But that’s obviously an option he has.”
However, one National Guardsman — who opted to remain anonymous — will not be going along with state’s prospective gun control measures, writing a direct letter to McEachin that “we will not comply.”
Here’s the letter, per Law Enforcement Today:
Mr. McEachin, have you ever heard of a little thing called the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878? Apparently, you are not.
Allow me to fill you in.
The purpose of the act is to limit the military branches from enforcing laws against US. citizens. While the PCA does not prevent a governor from calling the Virginia National Guard, the law enforcement capacity of the Guard while on state active duty is full-scale enforcement of martial law when local law enforcement can no longer maintain civilian control.
Are you listening Mr. McEachin? If Governor Northam were to call up the National Guard, it would be through enacting martial law. …
Martial law is the imposition of direct military control of normal civilian functions by a government, especially in response to a temporary emergency such as invasion or major disaster, or in an occupied territory.
Sheriffs and police chiefs refusing to go against the Constitution to fulfill your stupid anti-gun drivel hardly constitutes a temporary emergency.
If you and your fellow Constitution-hating hacks continue to push an agenda of gun banning, forfeiture and confiscation, I can almost assure you that you might meet more than one requirement for enacting martial law.
If you force local law enforcement to start violating peoples 2nd Amendment rights by taking their guns, you will wind up with temporary emergency due to an occupied territory.
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If the state deems that it should enact martial law because sheriff’s, whose only “crime” is standing up for the Constitution, here is what it looks like.
The state Constitution would be suspended. So would habeas corpus and civil rights.
There would be no freedom of the press, assembly or speech.
Curfews would be enforced on the people.
Troops would be in the streets for enforcement.
Checkpoints would be set up for control.
The Guard would have the ability to hold a person without charge.
Imprisonment without representation or due process.
Seeing that we are talking about gun control, there would be warrantless, house to house confiscation of firearms, ammunition, food supplies.
I have to wonder if this is really what Democratic leaders in Virginia want. Because what it equates to is a tyrannical government using its military as ‘enforcers.’
And that is exactly what the 2nd Amendment was created to protect against.
If the Virginia legislators want to push this issue, it could get ugly.
And oh, by the way, plan on seeing the vast majority of the Virginia National Guard become Conscientious Objectors. It will be really hard for them to arrest cops and confiscate guns when none of them will carry the necessary arms to enforce said arrests and confiscations.
How do I know this? I am one of them and will be one of the first to lay down my gun and walk away.
I will not be a pawn in a tyrannical game of human chess. Neither will most of the men and women I serve with.
Let us know what you think of this National Guardsman’s letter to Rep. Donald McEachin about not complying with anti-2A gun control measures.
I know. And that’s what concerns me about all of this. Regular folks that just want to live their lives in peace and be with their families might have to make a sacrifice for these corrupt scumbags.
Someone becomes a cop, joins the military, fire service, you know the risks going in and you volunteered. Joe Sixpack, that likes to hunt with his son or daughter and go to the range on the weekends with his buddies, didn’t sign up for that risk. In fact, he’s never done anything wrong. And now he’s faced with this. F*cked up.
But, we have only ourselves to blame for sending these corrupt bastards back, time and time again.
The holiday shakedown by the Maryland Patrol of a Florida family a few years back ought to be a textbook case on gestapo gun crazed LE tactics. Note the writer asks, how did they (Patrol) know the driver owned a gun? It all starts with gun registration and a call in data base.
https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/blog/travelers-tale/
And just think of all the NG divisions that were nationalized by FDR and sent to the European Theater of Operations during WWII. Isn't the Virginia NG part of the 29th Division that landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day? "Immortalized" by Robert Mitchum in "The Longest Day," and by leftist hero, Tom Hanks in "Saving Private Ryan?"
Thanks WWG1WWA.
There are no registration requirements for weapons
in Virginia.
“In Virginia, firearms dealers must keep the original background check consent form (required as part of every Virginia firearms sale) for at least two years, and permit certain law enforcement officers to examine and copy a form related to a particular firearm in the course of a bona fide criminal investigation.”
If you own a weapon that is more than two years old,
you’d be pretty safe from discovery from the State
Police tactics you describe. You would also have to
be under crimminal investigation for a gun ohffense
before they can legally stop you.
Red Dawn - Gun Registration To Be Used Against You by Foreign UN Occupiers
“Hopefully they will feel the wrath of the citizens in the next election.”
I have my doubts, and I live there. Statewide elections are still aggregate popular votes, and the weight of communist population densities pretty much preclude a Republican ever winning statewide office again in my lifetime. The best we an hope for is to retake the legislature and re-establish the previous stalemate. I hope I am overly pessimistic.
Consider nearby communist stronghold of Maryland where I lived for 30+ years. The commies only need to win three jurisdictions, PG and Montgomery counties and Baltimore city, and that has been the foundation of their strategy for three decades. The GOP presence in the legislature is negligible. The current liberal Republican governor is an anomaly.
The Constitution is the supreme law of the land
Marbury v. Madison
“Decided in 1803, Marbury remains the single most important decision in American constitutional law.[1] The Court’s landmark decision established that the U.S. Constitution is actual “law”, not just a statement of political principles and ideals”- Wilipedia
“I think they meant to say that the Governor may have to federalize that state’s National Guard.”
I believe the only person who can federalize the National Guard is the Commander in Chief, President Trump, and hopefully to arrest the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia for volating the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution.
1 breaks ranks, more to follow.
Patrick Henry and Richard Henry Lee are spinning in their graves.
Your facts are correct. IOW, yes.
There is hope...
No matter what state I'm in...I believe in the 2nd...
Uh yah, just like Kalifornicate’ya!
KA has not been stopped, why would VA be different?
YUP; but I think the correct terminology is “unlawful order”.
That was specifically written so the old NAZI excuse of “I was just following orders” can’t be used to escape judgement for crimes.
Oh, if only that were the FULL case!
But in reality Fed./ATF requires the form 4473 to be kept on file for TWENTY years, and the dealers “Bound Books” are retained for as long as the dealer is in business.
You can verify this at the ATF website if you doubt me.
So while VA technically does not have registration every firearm sold through a dealer has a paper trail that the VA LE may illegally examine.
Yes illegally, but when it’s the cops committing the crime who the #$!! are you going to call to stop it?
I’m sure they would hit as many of the largest dealers as possible at once to get access to as many records as possible before word got out.
“Black Bag” dead of night break-in operations would not surprise me.
Don’t know much about McEachin but he is a hardcore psychopathic leftist in his approach to issues. Sounds just like our Marxist State’s Attorney General Mark Herring (Dem) and our lunatic babykiller advocate Gov. Ralph Northam and his alleged rapist Lt. Gov. Fairfax.
We have a whole bunch of lefty nutcases now running our state and local counties, thanks, in part, to millions of dollars from Nazi KAPO George Soros and a Marxist businessman names Steven Phillips, among others (possibly including Tom Steyer, the environmental wacko rich guy and presidential candidate (for Ubangi).
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