We began with the shot heard ’round the world. How ironic will it be if the next iteration of declaring our independence comes as a result of a free people refusing to abide an overreaching centralized government coming yet again for their weapons?
Everything old is new again.
Maybe it will be a tax on ammunition…
Who would have thought that PW would become a hotbed of second amendment resistance? Given our host’s background, interests and subjects he has written about in the past, this is not the blog I would have expected to become one of the centers to rally the troops to the RKBA cause. That is not a slam at Jeff, it is just an observation on his priorities in expending intellectual capital in the past.
It is just kind of surprising to me that circumstances have forced us to go this route and have to fight to maintain these fundamental rights. More than a little depressing, I tell you.
We live in strange times, friends, strange times.
Question: Could Obama instruct BATF and DHS to re-categorize primers and smokeless powder as “high explosives”, subject to specialized licensing generally not available to civilians?
@charlesaustin says January 16, 2013 at 9:05 am
You’ve already been taxed. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/08/14/wtf-national-weather-service-buying-hollow-point-bullets/