I seriously thought about that point. Here are my conclusions.
1. If the movement is large enough, the feds can't get away with it.
2. If people paid for it themselves, then it would be like a trade show or convention, not a government-controlled freebie. That would endorse the idea that it is a citizen-militia under state jurisdiction, and not an extension of a federal standing army.
3. If the states controlled it per Hamilton's writings that the militia officers be under state appointment, then federal confiscation of a legal state militia exercise would be outright tyranny that all the other states would be forced to recognize. It would be Hamilton's worst fears come true, which would prove the Framers' hypthesis for all to see.
Sure, I see the danger, and the optics, of gathering lawful gun owners in one place under the pretext of a militia assembly, only to be rounded up like the Japanese in WWII. That's a stunt that Obama could only pull once. There are many counties in a single state, and 49 other states if he should pull a stunt like that in one place.
Do you really think that's a serious possibility that could sweep the nation?
-PJ
>> “Do you really think that’s a serious possibility that could sweep the nation?” <<
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We just watched the cancellation of an entire national election by open electronic vote fraud, and union thuggery.
They’ll do anything they wish, and the GOPe is definitely a part of the crime.