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Hm, ok.
Let’s put it this way: if we allow the federal government *ANY* way to deprive people of the right to keep and bear arms they will. It may start off as a small thing like them saying “well, gee, no civilian REALLY needs a minigun...” (ie 20,000-60,000 rounds per minute) and then they’ll say “well, we don’t want bad-guys to have fully automatic rifles” and so they illegalize civilian possession thereof. Then they say, well felons are bad-guys, why don’t we bar them possessing guns? And so forth, until you get where we are today.

You may think we have a lot of gun freedom, but we really don’t. In fact there’s a bit of a timebomb: in 2014 obamacare kicks in and makes it a felony for someone not to have qualifying healthcare. {As far as I know there are no exceptions for unemployment or ‘gaps’ in coverage if you want to switch providers.} Now consider that carefully, a felony for not having health insurance! And out current real unemployment rate +20% , and looking like it won’t improve any time soon.

So yes, I mistrust the federal government when it comes to weapons so much that I’d rather see every felon issued a 9mm upon internment into federal prison than have the government abridge the rights of people who have otherwise served their sentences (which is the case today). What’s the worst they could do? Kill each other and reduce the prison population? Kill prison guards? {Yeah, they could... and then the question becomes “who’ll bring them food?”}