TOMMY GUN UPDATE
The notion that the federal government could “ban” gun ownership was such an anathema to American sensibilities, and so clearly afoul of the Second Amendment’s intent as had been clearly understood up to that point, that the NFA could not be passed as an overt federal restriction upon individual ownership of firearms. The law was constructed and upheld upon the federal government’s presumed ability to tax, not upon its ability to restrict ownership of firearms.
This was a roundabout infringement upon Second Amendment rights that is somehow still championed by conservatives looking to score sensibility points with the left, and aligning with Cuomo’s position.
“Machine guns were outlawed because there was no need that justified the risk. Was that wrong, too?” Cuomo asks.
The short answer is, yes, that was wrong, too -- if the Second Amendment is the measure. And to be clear, the Second Amendment is the only sentence in the Constitution where an individual right to firearms is addressed.
Yet we find several conservatives aligning with Cuomo, in principle, suggesting that automatic weapons, or “machine guns,” have understandably been banned since ancient times (for us), and it was somehow justified as within the government’s right to do so. For example, Josh Hammer writes at the Daily Wire that, “automatic weapons are already (for all intents and purposes) banned” under the NFA, so new gun control measures on a “cosmetically amorphous” semi-automatic “assault weapons” should not be needed.
That statement not only concedes the left’s position that the federal government had the right to levy such infringements upon the individual right to gun ownership in the first place, but more importantly, it’s not entirely accurate.
In 2013 then-Senator Harry Reid and Senator Di Fi thought the Tommy Gun argument would blow away the Second Amendment:
Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nevada) mocked Second Amendment rights activists while announcing his support for a ban on assault weapons and limits to high-capacity magazine clips on the Senate floor today.
REID: In the 1920s, organized crime was committing murders with machine guns. So Congress dramatically limited the sale and transfer of machine guns. As a result, machine guns all but disappeared from the streets. We can and should take the same common-sense approach to safeguard Americans from modern weapons of war.
That is why I will vote for Senator Dianne Feinstein’s assault weapons ban – because we must strike a better balance between the right to defend ourselves and the right of every child in America to grow up safe from gun violence. I will vote for the ban because maintaining law and order is more important than satisfying conspiracy theorists who believe in black helicopters and false flags. And I will vote for the ban because saving the lives of young police officers and innocent civilians is more important than preventing imagined tyranny.
Di Fi next jumped on converters in order to abolishing the Second Amendment:
The Tommy Gun argument
It was the federal government that gave the country Prohibition that led to gangsterism, organized crime, and the widespread use of Tommy Guns. They even amended the Constitution to take a freedom away from Americans. The government then legislated against Tommy Guns to solve a problem it created.
Tommy Gun ownership became more difficult, though not illegal, after Bonnie and Clyde came to a bad end:
. . . a 1934 law passed a month after outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were killed in a hail of machine gun bullets. It required machine gun owners to pay a hefty tax, be fingerprinted and be listed on a national registry.
Do universal background checks ring a bell?
Long before the Roaring Twenties Americans believed they could stop government tyranny in its tracks. Back then the federal government was not loaded with Socialist U.N.-loving traitors; most especially in the U.S. Senate. In Tommy Guns heyday I doubt if even one American thought the U.S. Senate was a nest of traitors. The sad truth is that the people in today’s federal government are much different than the people who made it more difficult to own a Tommy Gun.
Just to be clear. Back in the twenties and thirties Congress was home to crooks and perverts aplenty. In that sense nothing changed. On the other side of the coin, treason at the highest levels of government was an alien concept no American thought about until Alger Hiss came along. Trust in the federal government has justifiably been going downhill ever since Hiss.
The sad fact is this: Many Americans know that every traitor in Congress today, and in every bureaucracy, are doing their best to enslave Americans in their drive to establish a global government. So it is no wonder the scum in government are afraid of getting shot.
Disarming the American people is essential before another layer of government can be laid on the backs of a free people. Traitors are blind to the consequences of their objective. Douche bags like Di Fi and her senate cohorts do as much damage as they can do for people they stooge for.
Most Americans know that Democrats are determined to disarm the private sector. Sadly, few Americans knew the depths of United Nations involvement.
The United Nations Arms Trade Treaty was proof of what gun controls was all about, but you never heard U.N.-loving traitors mention it even though they all supported it. In short: The Small Arms Treaty was an incremental step toward disarming law-abiding Americans.
Happily, Senator like Mike Lee stepped up to the plate in 2013:
The last thing the United Nations and American quislings want is a well-armed American citizenry should U.N. “peacekeepers” be called in to help the federal government put down a rebellion.
