Brace yourself: You're about to become a felon

American Thinker ^ | 27 Jun, 2023 | Colin McWay

[MtnClimber]

Merrick Garland wants to take your guns (and their accessories) away, the Constitution be damned.

In January 2023, the attorney general, Merrick Garland, signed ATF final rule 2021R-08F (the Rule), which calls for the registration of pistol braces in furtherance of the National Firearms Act of 1934 and the Gun Control Act of 1968. The Rule is wholly unconstitutional and fraudulently established. In this post, I will break down both the unconstitutionality of the Rule and the fraudulent basis upon which it has been established.

Let's start with the Bill of Rights and the Second Amendment. Without the Bill of Rights, we would not have a United States today.

When the newly adopted Constitution was sent from Philadelphia to the States for ratification, it faced serious challenges. One of the most contentious issues was the absence of a Bill of Rights. What became known as the Massachusetts Compromise, advanced by none other than John Hancock, offered a solution: in the first congress after the ratification of the Constitution, Congress would propose a Bill of Rights. Twelve amendments were sent to the States for ratification. Ten were ratified. (One was ratified in 1992; the other is still before the states.)

It is a common misconception that the Bill of Rights grants certain rights to citizens. It does no such thing. The Bill of Rights recognizes God-given, inalienable rights. What, then, is an inalienable right? An inalienable right is an intrinsic liberty, granted to you by God that creates no countervailing obligation on another. Inalienable rights are symmetrical: I recognize them in you, and you recognize them in me.

The Second Amendment is clearly one such right, as the right to self-defense is absolute. Make no mistake: the Second Amendment is not about hunting, or plinking. It's about repelling intruders and tyrants...

[Organic Panic]

I am surprised Biden hasn’t ordered the assassinations of several judges. It would be like Obama. or the mafia, though. The boss doesn’t have to give orders. Someone just “takes care of problems.” Lois Lerner comes to mind. The warden of the New York prison where Epstein didn’t hang himself. Look what Merrick allows to go on in front of justices’ homes.

[dpetty121263]

Well it is coming a time and pretty soon that People need to hold Liberal Democrats accountable along with their families.

[kawhill]

Me too. I want to know what brace I need to change my 9mm into a 16” Naval cannon! I would imagine the recoil would be a bit abusive.

[Drew68]

Thank Trump for this. His bumpstock ban laid the framework for increased ATF regulation.

[Sicon]

The Bill of Rights, by simply serving to articulate some of our God-given rights, puts the government on notice that none of these rights may be truncated in any way, irrespective of any government's incessant desires to do so — be it on guns, protest, or speech. The government has exactly zero standing on any of these issues.

And yet, today, our government spits on those rights every single day, and violates them with impunity.

[MtnClimber]

Thank Trump for this. His bumpstock ban laid the framework for increased ATF regulation.

I am not sure if Trump even knows what a bumpstock is. But I would side with educating him. If you don't have a better idea then vote for Brandon again.

[MtnClimber]

And yet, today, our government spits on those rights every single day, and violates them with impunity.

And I say that our government does not know what gender they are and as taxpayers we have the obligation to perform trans-surgery to make them the gender we pay for, even if their parents disagree.

[joma89]

Too late. We were all made felons years ago. The democrats are just waiting for each of us to get out of line before they magically charge each of us with the crime that no one even knows is a crime, but it is.

[Taxman]

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