The 11th Circuit joins “several sister circuits in holding that the Second Amendment does not protect the possession of machine guns.” That’s consistent with the Trump administration’s position on the matter, his campaign promises that “Your Second Amendment will always be safe with me as your president,” notwithstanding. [More]
Face it, gun owners are voting for who infringes less and accepting excuses for not demanding more.
There is an old not-so-funny joke about the differences between “The Left” and “The Right”. The main point being that both sides of the political spectrum want to control aspects of your life, perhaps to their own benefit, but that each side’s particular list of aspects given importance are 180 degrees out of phase.
That, among other things, is why the Anti-Federalists of the 1780s insisted that something like Virginia’s 1776 “Declaration of Rights” be appended to the proposed Federal constitution.
https://archive.csac.history.wisc.edu/10_The_Virginia_Declaration_of_Rights.pdf
Essentially, both ends of our political spectrum want to infringe upon our rights, all of our rights. They just disagree fundamentally about the finer points of their side’s preferred list of infringements. Neither side is comfortable with the limits placed upon them by “The Constitution of the United States” (as amended) backed up by the poor excuse of a “well regulated militia” in existence today and will do whatever they can to get out from under those limits whenever and where ever they can.
I chuckle whenever I hear or read “The Founders could never have imagined … ”
On the contrary, they imagined quite a bit, including the proclivities and capabilities of the mental midgets that would eventually come to administer the very government they were in the act of creating.
Richard Pryor has a routine that would be funnier if it weren’t so true. I’m talking about the one about his trip to Arizona’s state penitentiary with Gene Wilder while making a movie. After getting to know “the brotha’s” he thanks God we have penitentiaries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVfkqQSnpCs
I’ve gotten to know those in government, including those who want to be able to pick and choose which parts of RKBA can and should be infringed. Paraphrasing Pryor, “I thank God we got a Bill of Rights.”