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Is this DOJ really going to protect our 2A rights?
Recent court decision has strongly upheld your, mine, our “2A” (Second Amendment i.e. individual gun rights). Celebration time, right?
Fascinating case and even more fascinating, more exciting, outcome, because for a hundred years Americans have watched government chip away at your, mine, our rights, and all of a sudden the proverbial flood gates are opening up in the opposite direction, against the anti-freedom tide.
It appears that a whole host of long-time gun control rules and bits are going to be simply swept away. Like gone with the wind away, evaporated.
Things like suppressors (“silencers” for those silly people who get their ideas about guns from Hollywood movies) will no longer be considered a firearm, and will no longer be regulated as a firearm. Ditto for short barreled rifles and short shotguns, highly effective self defense items that have been used by anti-gun rights law enforcement to confuse and entrap way too many well intentioned and otherwise law-abiding Americans for way too long.
Now that the National Firearms Act is no longer a taxing law, courts are striking down all of its old tax-based gun regulations. And this tidal wave of regulatory relief is going to be a shock to the American political system. The genie will be coming out of the lamp, the cork will be coming out of the bottle, the river will be bursting through the dam, and there will be liberty proclaimed throughout The Land.
Or will there?
Because there is one not-so-small potential impediment remaining: President Trump’s very own Dept. of Justice. And so the question is Will The DOJ Let These Holdings Stand, or will it appeal them to the US Supreme Court?
I am a huge President Trump fan, have remained so through thick and thin. It is my hope that he not let his government appointees get involved, but will put his foot down, and block the remaining little anti-2A DOJ worms from appealing these decisions.
Huge test of the pro-2A commitments we have heard for so many years. Yes, I believe those commitments were meant when they were made, and yes, the Trump Administration has been fabulous on 2A freedom. But allowing this much freedom for this many citizens to happen this fast is really the acid test.
Mister President Trump, I hope that you will order your DOJ to stand down, and let these court holdings stand for themselves, and become the law of the land.