I agree. That's why I think NC (and other states) should add an amendment like LA did, enforcing strict scrutiny on the right to keep and bear arms.
I sounded to me like that attorney was turning strict scrutiny on its head; instead of a "compelling state interest" being required to justify the smallest infringement, I think he was saying, we can do whatever we want, and make up some crap to justify a compelling state interest. That junk don't fly with me, and did NOT fly with the North Carolina patriots at that meeting.
NC used to or still does have law in which the sheriff/local LE can halt sales of firearms and liquor. Its was used fairly recently in King. I think the circumstances were a prolonged stretch of bad weather or some such. At any rate there is precedence for what the lawyer talked about. When I lived in NC the place struck me as extremely corrupt and gun owners in general seemed the Fudd types mostly. I recall asking about NFA weapons at Perrys (I think it was there) and got the wide eyed ‘we dont do that kind of stuff here (in NC)’ sort of response. LOL, I think they thought I was a fed. Being from a free state previously all the NFA stuff was old hat, something I was completely comfortable with. In short NC gun owners seemed to be their own worst enemies. For some considerable time they voted dem never thinking they would be enslaved. Now, finally, some (a very few I think) are waking up. Your poverty is considerable and embarrassing. Just my observations...