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PS:

Somewhat tangential to the Rowan matter (tangential only because Rowan was a journalist, rather than a politician), the way Our Leaders have been getting around the DC gun ban is quite creative. They have been getting themselves sworn in as U.S. Marshalls.

This empowers them to carry everywhere, including, if I'm not mistaken, on commercial airliners.

It also -- human nature being what it is -- gives them very little motivation to come up with any kind of "national carry" law, since for them, it's moot. They already have national carry.

That's right. Your Senator, or Congressman, may also be a U.S. Marshall!

Now, the U.S. Marshalls Service is part of the Executive Branch of the federal gov't, and the Legislature is part of the Legislative Branch.

This means that these jokers are members of two branches of the federal government at the same time.

And that, I belive, is illegal.

But, when you're above the law, why worry about trifling details like that?

I am not advocating any illegal action.

But, discussion of what the 2nd amendment is for is lawful.

Is the 2nd amendment rights clause authorizing armed action against tyrannies of a government against its citizens.

And... is a judge or legislature outlawing or restricting the 2nd amendment one of those tyrannies?

Now, the U.S. Marshalls Service is part of the Executive Branch of the federal gov't, and the Legislature is part of the Legislative Branch.
This means that these jokers are members of two branches of the federal government at the same time.

And that, I belive, is illegal.

There's a neat little remedy for that problem under the Indiana state constitution: the acceptance of a second governmental office automatically vacates the first.

I had the entertaining project of applying it to a county Civil Defense Director who was also the chair of the local school board, and had voted to give his third [non-governmental] employer a three-and-a-half-million-dollar school repair contract. Following the report in our paper and an investigation by the state's Attorney General, he didn't even have to resign his school board job, as he'd already done so, de jure.

My next surprise for him: an open door act records request to the board as to how much he'd been paid in the three and a half years he'd illegally held both positions, and was thereby required to pay back by the State Board of Accounts. He passed away sometime thereafter, following a short bout with cancer, in 2004.