“𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦, 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘢𝘸, 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺’𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺.”
How is the repeal of some of those federal laws coming along?
I’d actually like to see this come to fruition: NICS basically shutting down and gun purchases stopping. Bear with me a moment before flaming me.
The Second amendment guarantees that the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Up until now, most people have just dealt with waiting a few hours or days for NICS to pass them through. A couple of weekends ago I was waiting for a check that took ~15 minutes while another man was waiting for over 2 hours. People just accept this with the caveat that it does happen. Well if it doesn’t happen, and the transfer can’t take place, this would be grounds for a lawsuit, and that suit, I believe, would have standing to be taken to SCOTUS.
It could be very easily argued that due to the shutdown, it’s very plain to see that government policies are infringing on the plain language of the Second amendment. Since NICS relies on government funding, in the event of a government shutdown, NICS stops operating, and boom! Second amendment infringement. SCOTUS would likely walk a very thin line in the ruling, I believe they would come down on the side that this system cannot not function for any reason if the intent is to not infringe. That would force the ATF to either fix it or abolish it or Congress to force it to be fixed or abolished.
We have to play this game now, but it’s going to be in our favor in the long run. Just look at what happened in Florida recently. After decades of restrictions on open carry, someone finally filed suit and won to have open carry prohibitions struck down in the state. I never thought I’d live to see the day, but here we are; and I believe if NICS breaks down, we could win back that little bit of ground as well.