PA Bill Number: HB335
Title: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons.
Description: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons. ...
Last Action: Removed from table
Last Action Date: May 1, 2024
Why 'gun control' is illegal :: 01/10/2016
President Barack Obama unveiled his first major policy action of the new year: a batch of new victim-disarmament — or, as its supporters call it, “gun control” — measures that he intends to impose by executive order.
The response from Republicans in Congress is, pardon the pun, weak tea. They merely accuse him of “executive overreach,” claiming that the powers he claims lie with Congress, not the presidency.
The president retorts that the orders are “well within (his) legal authority.”
But each side is wrong.
The language of the Second Amendment is clear and its intended meaning is well-documented. The Framers of that amendment — who had just emerged from a long war against the world's most powerful army, a war won by an armed citizenry — understood the right to keep and bear arms as a right “of the people.”
They specifically and intentionally barred the president, Congress, the state legislatures, your local city council — anyone — from infringing on it.
Thus, every “gun control” law now on the books is unconstitutional and therefore, per Marbury v. Madison, void.
Not only is Obama's executive order sortie, taken in conspiracy (“consultation”) with the attorney general and other government functionaries, not within his legal authority, it is a crime.
Under U.S. Code Title 18, Section 241: “If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same. ... They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section ... they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.”
I've heard it said that a grand jury, if asked to do so by a prosecutor, will “indict a ham sandwich.” Is there a prosecutor and a grand jury in the United States brave enough to bring Barack Obama, Loretta Lynch and their co-conspirators before the bar of justice?
Probably not.
But with 300 million guns in the hands of 100 million Americans, it's unlikely that this regime's attempted depredations can be made effective. Like Walt Whitman said, “Resist much, obey little.”
Tom Knapp is director of the William Lloyd Garrison Center for Libertarian Advocacy Journalism.
http://triblive.com/opinion/featuredcommentary/9744020-74/war-amendment-control#axzz3wyw1c700
