Thanks for posting the offender’s statement. That makes my critique much easier.
“I was talking about true assault weapons – fully automatic firearms.”
According to the Founders, an armed citizenry was essential - “for in such manner is tyranny kept in check”.
Historically, Americans could and did own crew served weapons (cannons to lurking Liberals) and even war ships now known to historians and non-Liberal Americans as “privateers”.
Just how does a NRA Director suddenly believe that just because some socialism impaired goober in a gooberment agency wants to ban or license machine guns, that such acts are Constitutional?
Saying “But it is the law!” won’t do - remember Dred Scott?
Now for Da Director’s:
“I was sworn to uphold the United States Constitution.”
Very good. Then start by so doing. How about starting by getting that Nazi weapons control act off our law books.
You know, the Federal Weapons Control Act which was an exact translation of the Nazi law! That law, the one doddering Senator Dodd had the Library of Congress translate from the original German.
Thank G*d for JPFO.
My father was a member of the Military Order of World Wars. He thought that I was sometimes too extreme in my defense of RKBA. He handed me a brochure one day, printed by MOWW, stating the the NG was the “militia” in a constitutional sense. This view is prevalent in parts of law enforcement as well.
You may not find very many cops and military officers who would refuse an order to confiscate your guns, on some simple whim of government.
I can’t say many bad things about my father, except doubting he would have ever questioned orders, and refused them, even bad orders.