“To the extent that AR-15-platform weapons are ‘Arms,’ it is because they are customarily used for offensive purposes…the Solicitor General maintains that AR-15 platform weapons are suitable for ‘repelling invasions, suppressing insurrections, and resisting tyranny.’ Today, of course, these responsibilities are reserved for the United States military, which maintains trained professional armies across the globe.” [More]
Anybody smell gas…?
Yup — they want them reserved to the “standing army,” which the Founders expressly saw as a threat to liberty.
“Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people.”
–James Madison
“Hence likewise they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which under any form of Government are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty.”
–Washington’s Farewell Address