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As Edwin Vieira Jr. noted in Kolbe v. Hogan:
This reliance on a permanent private market for firearms guaranteed that most militiamen, through their own efforts, could always obtain firearms suitable for both collective and individual self-defense, and forestalled tyranny by precluding rogue public officials from monopolizing the production, distribution, and possession of firearms.
This is more than tyranny. Deliberately undermining “the security of a free State” is treason.
[Via DDS]