Posted on 05/03/2017 3:41:14 AM PDT by Strategy
The West Point graduate and Iraq War Army veteran President Donald Trump has nominated to be the new Army Secretary has a very good understanding of the Second Amendment, which is predictably driving anti-liberty liberals insane.
Tennessee state Sen. Mark Green (R), President Donald Trump's nominee for Army secretary, strongly believes that citizens should be armed -- and not just with any ol' guns. They should be able to possess whatever weapons the military has, because an armed citizenry is the "ultimate checks and balances" against the federal government.
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Why not?
Cannons used to be privately owned and no one thought a thing of it.
It is amazing how much surplus stuff is floating around as they continually change camo patterns and such; you realize how much of this spending is pure makework...
When I see designs like the CFP-90 pack (between the ALICE and MOLLE systems), I can’t believe it existed for any other purpose than giving people something to do.
That does not negate the Supreme law of the land and what it means.
OK...
Can they stop wasting money on some of this stuff?
When the Constitution was written, we had privately-owned cannons.
The Constitution covers granting "Letters of Marque and Reprisal", granting permission for privately-owned warships to go after the shipping of the enemy. Private warships, with cannons.
Yes, I’ll have that Bull designed Iraqi 155mm Al-Majnoonan gun over there in the corner, 500 M795s, 510 of the ATK PGK fuzes and 2 programing stations.
:-)
The confiscation of privately owned artillery was the goal of the Redcoats raid on Concord that set off our freedom fighters.
Protected, as I said, by the second amendment. I suspect, however, that an aircraft carrier (even without the air wing, much less the battle group) is more expensive in real terms than any American privately owned armed vessel was in the late 18th/early 19th Centuries. Probably more expensive than a Ship of the Line was.
This guy will give Maura Healey the vapors!
Happiness is a warm mortar tube.
I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials.
IMHO, about the only thing the Founding Fathers whiffed on was term limits, but I understand. They could not have contemplated the introduction of central air conditioning, which made Washington DC livable during the summer.
Texas has it right, i.e. the Legislature meets every two years, less opportunity for them to make mischief.
“If the courts ever interpreted the Second Amendment the way they interpret the First Amendment, we’d have a right to bear nuclear arms by now.” - Ann Coulter
Do you think I could get one of those MOABs then? There’s a particular stop-light camera near where I live that deserves some payback :)
Anything short of nuclear, bio, or chem if they can write the check.
“Texas has it right, i.e. the Legislature meets every two years, less opportunity for them to make mischief.”
Kentucky does the same. Legislature meets only once every two years. Congress used to be this way.
They should be able to possess whatever weapons the military has, because an armed citizenry is the “ultimate checks and balances” against the federal government. ............................ Something the people of Venezuela failed to recognize.
Bringing sanity to the Pentagon one nominee at a time.
5.56mm
Light recoilless rifles and mortars, however, maybe so.
They're a helpful reminder to cops in surplus armored vehicles that they have no lawful authority to perform house-to-house searches for firearms, or cash, or jewelry, or anything else without a legal warrant, just because they can.
And it's also worth remembering that Henry Knox, the Revolutionary War hero and father of the American Artillery Corps, was a civilian artillery hobbyist. Fun hobby!
Me, I'm a Tanker. Not an ex-tanker, not a former tanker, I'll be a treadhead until the day I die. We work in four-man teams called crews, and I know three other tankers similarly inclined. And yep, we're http://www.armyjeeps.net/armor1.htmin the market for a new ride. With a cannon on it.
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