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Title: SECOND AMENDMENT WALKED ON AGAIN
Source: boblonsberry.com
URL Source: http://www.boblonsberry.com/writings.cfm?go=4
Published: Jun 7, 2007
Author: Bob Lonsberry
Post Date: 2007-06-07 12:14:35 by freepatriot32
Ping List: *libertarians*     Subscribe to *libertarians*
Keywords: guns, second amendment, libertarians
Views: 85
Comments: 3

Hey, there was great news out of Washington, D.C. yesterday.

The federal government announced that it had posted the entire National Firearms Act Handbook on the Internet. Now, this 10 megabyte document is there for you to read any time you want.

Send your Thank You cards to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

On a government website yesterday, we learned – and I quote – “The Handbook is an essential document for understanding and complying with the National Firearms Act.”

Well, aren’t we some lucky people. The overseer has decided to post the rules of the plantation right there on the front door of the big house.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a good citizen. I obey the law, and I specifically obey the National Firearms Act.

But I also denounce it, and I look forward to a day when its artificial and un-American constraint on my Second Amendment rights is gone.

The National Firearms Act – as you probably know – was passed in 1934 and has grown like a cancer since. It led to the horrific Supreme Court ruling found in the case of United States versus Miller, a decision that said the Second Amendment gives rights to the government, but not to you and me.

That decision, of course, was wrong. But it has hung like a millstone around the neck of the Second Amendment for almost 70 years.

And so the National Firearms Act Handbook – so thoughtfully available on the Internet – is not a convenience, it is a constraint. It is a reminder that civil liberty can be restricted by government, that constitutional guarantees aren’t so guaranteed after all, and that we are not as free as the Founding Fathers intended us to be.

Could you imagine the federal government issuing a handbook outlining the rules for exercising free speech, or freedom of religion? Can you imagine the uproar if a reporter had to get a license from the government before he could exercise freedom of the press?

And yet the Second Amendment, with its liberties, is routinely restricted and extinguished, and this new online handbook is nothing but an irksome reminder of that fact.

As a citizen, I will obey this law. But I will also work and fight the rest of my life to change it.

Because it is wrong. And no amount of lawyers or politicians or reporters is ever going to convince me of anything different.

A chained man is not free.

And a limited freedom is not a freedom.

The National Firearms Act is now on the Internet, which is ironic because, from where I stand, it shouldn’t even be on the books. Subscribe to *libertarians*

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