There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Repetition is a good teacher.
I think at this point a mention of the 1986 gun control act might be appropriate. In essence it cracks down on machine guns, by limiting those available for purchase and in so doing virtually BANS those particular weapons. The supply is now so limited and the price so high that it is indeed a BAN and the sooner the law abiding among us fight the unconstitutionality of such the sooner we will all be able to afford what government sought to overregulate and ban with the original NFA of 1934.
“Shall not be infringed” has been going on since at least as long as the NRA has been in existance, and for that the NRA should be taken to task as well.
The NRA was first organized after the Civil War because marksmanship in the Union Army was pitiful. The NRA's Institute for Legislative Action, the NRA-ILA, was first organized in the early 1970s, IIRC, to deal with gun grabber assaults on the Second Amendment.
“I think at this point a mention of the 1986 gun control act might be appropriate.”
Two interesting facts to add:
1. the act also contained a provision banning the ownership of any fully automatic firearms not registered by May 19, 1986. That provision was slipped into the legislation as an 11th hour amendment by Rep. William J. Hughes, a New Jersey Democrat.
2. President Ronald Reagan signed it into law on May 19, 1986.