I feel compelled to point out the paradox of late in the gun control issue.
While their may be and has been a lot of political rhetoric admonishing guns and promoting more controlling laws and regulations, the actuality at the state and local levels have been a trend to more support of citizens rights to own, carry and use guns. State laws have been trending for many years towards protecting the gun owner that defends themselves.
IL just became the 50th state to update laws that make owning and carrying a weapon legal (not without some infringement of course). But the adoption of Castle Doctrines and Stand Your Ground Laws, along with the expansion of some reciprocity, the citizens are winning this at local levels.
It’s the Fed that talks and balks. Because they can’t do much when they can’t control opinions and mandates at local levels. Our concern about the Fed needs to focus on their finding a back door to circumvent state rights and turn the issue into a national commerce issue. Here is where we need to focus on what the libs will try next.
Interstate Commerce can be regulated constitutionally (as currently interpreted). The Feds charter is not intended to limit interstate commerce as they did with health insurance companies years ago. But rather to facilitate and unify the states efforts in things like currency, transportation, etc. However, this administration can be expected to use this usurped power to regulate things like ammunition, distribution, manufacturing, etc.
Look for the fed to try and restrict distribution across state lines (like produce). Look for them to regulate the manufacturing of ammunition (or tax it for Homeland Security Revenue).
I doubt the Fed will get anywhere with individual rights or weapons bans. That will still get decided at state levels per constituency. But they will find ways to make gun ownership too expensive or troublesome so as to cause folks to break laws by choice or by ignorance.
Remain diligent FRiends.
Tenacious, I have read similar comments before on gun sites. Let me respectfully disagree.
Laws are for chumps now. Regardless what your State Constitution says, this Regime scoffs. And make no mistake, they are the Muscle. Local/State Authority will buckle to demands from the Muscle if/when they make their call.
The email campaign setup by the DOJ regarding “Did Zimmerman ever say anything that had racial overtones” tells us that they will do WHATEVER they want and be prepared to spend your life in court.
Castle Doctrine and Stand Your Ground were responses to opportunistic scumbag Prosecutors going after citizens who had the gall to actually defend themselves, their families, homes, and property from the dregs of society.
Holder, Obama, and their ilk believe that crime is a result of social ills like poverty, inequality, etc; Or at least that is their excuse. Therefore, the “victim” is really at fault and self-defense is violation of the criminal’s “civil rights.”
I am firmly convinced that this is how they think and this response is simply a way of expressing it.