Here’s an idea I had: an alternate 2nd Amendment.
A large number of armed men willing to protect it being necessary to the survival of this Constitution, neither the executive, the legislative, or the judicial branch of the United States government, nor any branch of any government of any of the several states, nor of any city, town, county, parish, territory, district, or any other body, or any unelected employee of any of these bodies, shall pass any law, issue any edict, or take any action of any kind that has, whether as an intended or an unintended consequence, any restriction on, interference with, or effect of any kind on the manufacture, import, sale, transfer, possession, or bearing on one’s person of any firearm of any description, or the ammunition, components, spare parts, or any other appurtenances thereto. Congress shall pass legislation mandating criminal penalties for violations of these provisions, and those penalties shall include but shall not be limited to loss of citizenship. This law shall apply to all persons occupying any position in any government at any level.
The term “firearm” means any weapon now in existence, any new technology that may render any of these obsolete, and any technology that in turn renders these new weapons obsolete, and thus forward in perpetuity.
I agree with the idea of strengthening the 2nd amendment short of machine guns, armed felons, etc. And states will insist on certain restrictions regardless of what we recommend.
But people will definitely plant the following flags that states will bow to:
— Removing ‘F’ from the ATF. [If not something more strident.
— No tax on guns.
— No excessive fees for gun registration.
— Safeguards to prevent federal registration database.
— No tax on ammo.
BUT — we also need states to have the power to taint and remove anti-constitution justices, such as a number of ‘surpreme’ court justices:
Sotomayor joined with ‘Justices’ Stevens, Breyer, and Ginsburg when they dissented against gun rights in McDonald v Chicago. The Bill of Rights clearly states: “shall not be infringed”. The Founders’ intention is indisputable [regarding gun rights].
We can remove ‘for a well trained militia’ from the 2nd amendment and leave it more clear: “The right to bear arms shall not be federally infringed, shall not be taxed, and shall not result in any fees to gun owners by any government, and states will be strictly limited to how they regulate firearms according to the following manual xxx written by xxx.”
The manual would include:
“... machine guns, armed felons, etc. ...”
[States will hash that out regardless of what we suggest.]