Washington House Dems Pass Permit-to-Purchase Bill; Defies 2A, Say Critics [More]
That means the Marxists in charge can say “No,” and expand denial criteria with majority votes. This is naked, in-your-face tyranny.
As Constitutional scholar 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.”
That’s why it’s a mistake to rely exclusively on “self defense” in legal arguments and avoid making a case for the Constitutiopnal Militia.
But….
But…
Bipartisan!
People forget that the colonial era militias were established over the objection of the government.
If/when the government gets veto power over if a militia can exist, what it can do, and what arms it is allowed to carry, what have you actually accomplished?