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If you have to buy a permit to do something, that something is no longer your inalienable right to do, but rather a government-granted (and government-revocable) privilege, which you are allowed to do at the pleasure of your masters.

Thank you for taking the point of getting a license or permit to the next level. Since I can only use this right if licensed or permitted, it certainly is not the right I thought it was.
I am restricted to buying what is authorized by the licensing authority and the license also requires the signature of the county sheriff.
I am currently living in Maryland and close to D.C. so it seemed like a victory when I got the license.

If you have to buy a permit to do something, that something is no longer your inalienable right to do, but rather a government-granted (and government-revocable) privilege, which you are allowed to do at the pleasure of your masters.

The "keep and bear" part already needs to be modified to "keep in your closet, if you are allowed to keep at all", in order to reflect reality.

It's amazing to me the number of people that continue to blather on about rights, freedom, and limited government in a country where it's damn near impossible to legally carry without getting government permission to exercise your 'rights', in a country where lots of people have 35 - 45% of their earnings taken from them and redistributed to pay for things they would never in a million years voluntarily pay their money towards, in a country where if you travel and the authorities demand ID you damn sure better have your 'papers' in order, in a country where the central government has sanctioned the slaughter of 45+ million babies by abortion.

Lets see, "Surveilance is freedom." and "restriction is not infringement" and "denial to exercise a right is no limitation of that right" and "the two party system has served us well." and "submitting to being a slave is being a good citizen". Most accept these lies.

We repeatedly see people destroyed by the central government who's only threat to the central government is in the ideas they promote. The Weavers, Branch Davidians, prolife activists and groups and tax protesters to name a few.