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Here we bring you all things Second Amendment because without the Second Amendment nothing else will matter.
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Nadler Omits Key Part Of Second Amendment in ‘Quote’
Tom Knighton – Bearing Arms
There are times when you can quote parts of something, omit a bit in the middle, and not really change the meaning. Those middle parts are often superfluous to the meaning and so they can be omitted without a problem.
But if someone does that, they need to be prepared to be challenged. After all, in many other cases, removing something from the middle can drastically change the meaning of the quote.
Why am I talking about quotes and omitting a few words?
Because words matter, and in something like the Second Amendment, there are two words that are vital to correctly understanding what it means. Those words are “the people.”
Yet Rep. Jerry Nadler doesn’t seem to think they’re all that important.
“A well regulated Militia being necessary for the security of a free State, the right to bear Arms shall not be infringed.” Read more here.
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Codrea Brings Up Good Point About ‘In Common Use’
Tom Knighton / BEARING ARMS
I first heard the phrase “in common use” regarding guns following the Heller decision. The idea was that if a gun was in common use by the people, it couldn’t be banned or even heavily restricted like Washington, D.C. had done with handguns.
But the thing is that there are a lot of weapons that aren’t in common use primarily because it’s illegal for us to own them.
Believe me, I’d probably opt for select-fire weapons anytime there was a choice, simply because it gave me a choice. However, that’s not something I can really explore because I have a writer’s salary and a family with an annoying need to eat sometime this week.
Weak, I know. Yet my point is that these guns would be in common use if they weren’t banned, but because they’re banned, they can be banned.
No, it doesn’t make sense to me either.
Over at Firearms News, David Codrea delves a bit into this topic from a slightly different…Read more here.
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Maine Apparently Not Done Trying to Be Stupid on Guns
Tom Knighton – Bearing Arms
Maine is something of an anomaly. While they’re historically Democrat, as a state, they’re also historically pro-gun.
Yes, some of that changed earlier this year in the aftermath of the Lewiston massacre, but it wasn’t as bad as it could have been. They didn’t pass a lot of measures anti-gunners seem to think are essential, meaning they wanted to do something, but they weren’t going to go full-on stupid regarding guns.
That’s good.
Yet it seems another proposal is floating there that, should it go anywhere, marks the end of sanity.
Her death led to “Donna’s Law,” which allows people to put their own names on a “do-not-sell list” for firearms. Washington state had already adopted such a measure in 2018 before Nathan’s death, and Virginia and Utah later followed by passing similar laws. Read more here.
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Colorado Semi-Auto Ban Expected to Fail in Committee
Cam Edwards / BEARING ARMS
With just two days left in the legislative session, one of the prime architects of a sweeping semi-auto ban that’s already been approved by the Colorado House says she’s asking for her bill to be killed in a Senate committee, even while vowing to revisit the ban in the future.
Rep. Julie Gonzales’s decision has more to do with saving face than protecting the Second Amendment, given that the bill faced a tough vote in a key Senate committee and had been treated with skepticism by Gov. Jared Polis.
Even if Gonzales had not asked for the bill to be killed, it was unclear if the measure could make it out of the Senate State, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee.
Democrats have a 3-2 majority on the panel, but one of the three Democrats is Sen. Tom Sullivan, a Centennial lawmaker whose son was killed in the Aurora theater shooting. Sullivan is a fierce gun-regulation advocate but a skeptic of a so-called assault weapons ban in Colorado. Read more here.
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