[Sir Gawain]

Please die soon traitorous bastards.

[patton]

Pin ping ping ping

Can I join in ? I own houses in both VA an NY, and posess a VA CCW.

I also have significantly more than a TS clearance, am a member of the draft board (presidential appointment, no less), and worked in the pentagon for two years (ending in 2003).

[Badray]

Thanks for posting this. I've been so confused thinking that I had rights because of my Creator. Now I know that the gubmint will decide for me what I'm allowed to do and if I can defend my life against predators.

I know that there is NOTHING about New York that would induce me to go there or spend any money there. If I have a choice of products made in New York or any other foreign country, I pick one of the other foreign countries.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Text of the Second Amendment
"A well regulated Militia
being necessary to the security of a free State,
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed."

Anyone who actually reads AND understands the 2nd Amendment will see that there is no need or authority for any type of gun registration and there is no need for anyone to have to apply for a license to carry a gun.
Any political party, politician, judge (etc), organization or individual who trys to convince you that:
1) you must register a firearm
2) you must pass a background check
3) you must wait (x) amount of days before you can get your firearm
4) you need to have a license to carry a gun
is either uneducated about OUR rights as citizens
OR is actively working to undermine OUR country.

How Did the Founders Understand the Second Amendment?

CONGRESS in 1866, 1941 and 1986 REAFFIRMS THE SECOND AMENDMENT
The Bill of Rights, including the Second Amendment right to keep and bear firearms,
originated in the United States Congress in 1789 before being ratified by the States.
On three occasions since then--in 1866, 1941, and 1986--
Congress enacted statutes to reaffirm this guarantee of personal freedom
and to adopt specific safeguards to enforce it.

ON THE DAY BEFORE Thanksgiving 1993,
the 103d US Congress brought forth a constitutional turkey.
The 103d Congress decided that the Second Amendment did not mean what it said
("...shall not be infringed") and passed the Brady bill.
How the Brady Bill Passed (and subsequently - "Instant Check")
When the Brady Bill was passed into law on November 24, 1993,
the Senate voted on the Conference Report
and passed the Brady Bill by UNANIMOUS CONSENT.

[zip]

Mordue held that Bach could not allege a constitutional right to bear arms because the "Second Amendment is not a source of individual rights." And the Privileges and Immunities Clause was not violated by the permit rule, he said, because "the factor of residence has a substantial and legitimate connection with the purposes of the permit scheme such that the disparate treatment of nonresidents is justifiable."

Is it possible that this a liberal court? Wake up, people.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Expected from a state run for and by commies.

[shellshocked]

Well, this certainly looks like a juicy USSC challenge.

[Shooter 2.5]

Join the NRA while we can still vote through the ballot box instead of the ammo box.

And if you are already a member, please put the initials in your tagline. Thank you.

[Mulder]

So we have a regime who refuses to recognize the Supreme Law of the land, while simeltaneously enacting all sorts of edicts to harass it's citizens.

What is to be done about this?

[cbkaty]

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

The "congress shall make no law" does not appear in this Amendment....therefore I must (gladly) conclude that it's power is absolute and that of the individual....not the "State".

...and the beat goes on....the fight of the individual to retain arms is eternal.

[ThanhPhero]

The judge misreads the amendment.

The first amendment says "Congress shall make no law..."

The 2nd says "...shall not be infringed..." without saying by whom it shall not be infringed, stating starkly that it Shall Not Be Infringed. So nobody may infringe that right, not even the states or a semiliterate judge.