List of arms suitable for military use needed
Dear Editor: Great work in reporting by Dave Workman in Gun Week, Nov. 15, 2011, and by all those who attended and have done yeoman work in defending our right to keep and bear arms. We don’t stop until we have the RKBA just like the Patriots of 1775 under the Suffolk Resolves of 1774.
In reading the article there are some added commentary I would like to share with all fellow readers.
The Suffolk Resolves of 1774, noted under Art. 11 that by right, the inhabitants of the towns were to learn the art of war, and to appear weekly under arms for that express purpose. Notice how the word “militia” was not used but “inhabitants” and that this document in total, was adopted by the First Continental Congress and is currently part of the laws of this nation. The Second Amendment was BORN in Massachusetts.
South vs Maryland 59 US 396 (1855) ruled, that when a Mr. Pottle of Massachusetts was kidnapped in the presence of Sheriff South of Maryland, that Sheriff South had no DUTY or OBLIGATION to protect Mr. Pottle from any criminal act. The Constitution does NOT obligate any public servant to protect anyone from crime as such ability is a right of all citizens and inhabitants.
Miller 307 US 174 (1939) ruled that Miller had standing to be heard in federal court though Miller was not a “militia” or “National Guard” member and that there was not enough evidence before the court to show that a short barreled shotgun/rifle was part of the ordinary military equipment [they were and are] or could contribute to the common defense [they could be]. The case was remanded back to the lower court for more input from Miller. Miller had died so the Miller ruling remains open to the point that the court awaits proof that short barreled shotgun/rifles, machineguns, handguns and silencers, are part of the ordinary military equipment [hey are] or could contribute to the common defense [yes they can].
Once this fact is shown, all federal and state gun laws would cease to exist regarding possession of firearms by non-felons, and only such concern the abuse of firearms by those who possess them.
Maybe someday the Miller case will revisit the court and a litigant will do a Declaratory Judgment, showing that, yes, short-barreled rifles/shotguns, machineguns, handguns and silencers, are part of the ordinary military equipment or that these firearms could contribute to the common defense.
Don Schwarz Stoughton, MA
Administration dodges transparency platform
Dear Editor: For three years, White House officials have rolled out countless executive orders and initiatives touting open government. Just recently, they unveiled plans to move federal archival records from a paper-based to an electronic system. But behind the scenes, Obama’s lawyers systematically have stymied public information requests, carved out crater-sized disclosure loopholes, fought subpoenas on scandals from Fast and Furious to Solyndra, and made routine the holiday document dump.
The latest meeting of the Government Accountability and Transparency Board, attended by Vice President Joe Biden, was closed to the press two weeks ago (November).
The Justice Department stealthily attempted to sabotage the Freedom of Information Act last month (November) with a regulation change that would have allowed federal agencies to legally and deliberately deceive the public about the existence of requested records. After a massive backlash, DOJ retreated and sheepishly admitted that the license-to-lie rule “falls short” of the Obama “commitment” to transparency.
(Actually, it’s the perfect embodiment of the administration’s contempt.) The same DOJ, it should be noted, banned reporters from a FOIA training workshop in 2009.
Gun Week’s last issue had an article dealing with this latest DOJ scam. Your article did not however make mention of DOJ’s “retreat,” which might not have been known at your press time. Mention of TRANSPARENCY in connection with Obama & Co. SA really makes me laugh. Unfortunately such laughter makes my old ribs hurt. Still, from DOJ and Obama et al, the usual hijinks, sad to note.
Alan Schultz Pittsburgh, PA
January 10 in History: Thomas Paine’s influential Common Sense was first published in 1776.
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