The Evil of Creeping Gun Control & The Slippery Slope

SPC David Willis - I don't disagree with you at all. I wouldn't own one. I'm just saying that it's starting that plunge down the slippery slope.

CDR Dan Cunningham I went to Vermont for the first time last year. I was kind of blown away. I've always thought of hippie liberals when I thought of Vermont. There's a strange mix there though.

SSG (Join to see) - Hippie liberals are often the people that want the littlest government interference in their lives. They just wanna live, smoke weed, bang who they want and shoot guns haha. Its the social liberals you need to look out for.

The job of a squad automatic weapon or light machine gun is suppression fire not necessarily accuracy a bump stock on let's say a civilian RPK would serve that function well. the question is why would a civilian need the ability to lay down suppression fire. they wouldn't. however its their right under the constitution to possess any weapon. however we have violated the 2nd and 14th amendments. the second being the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. and the 14th being No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law. the 1934 nfa act placing a 200 tax stamp on automatic weapons as well as mandatory registration of the weapon and restricting personal ownership to those that can get permission to own such weapons is definite infringement also it deprives citizens of a right and privilege without due process of law and the needed due process would be a revision of the 2nd amendment. and where was the army that day? not defending the constitution.

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Good point...they are derelict in their duties. They have been doing a lot of things lately which suggest we need to replace them as our so called representatives.

After reading this and hopefully understanding it, I have one question - How are the persons affected compensated? If there is no compensation, doesn't that violate the US Constitution and possibly the state's constitution? Sounds eerily of a violation of the 5th Amendment if that is the case; but then we won't find out until it goes into effect and someone can sue for relief and it hits the US Supreme Court. That is the slippery slope.

There are a couple of advocacy groups that are already working on a lawsuit. Your question is an argument I've seen in a number of conversations concerning this situation. From what I've come to understand, the compensation is not being labeled a felon.

I have no idea how they plan on enforcing this, but I guess that's something I should have expected coming out of MA. Truly conservative politicians there are like unicorns and leprechauns so the people don't really have anyone protecting them from this crap.