Posted on 01/15/2022 5:21:55 AM PST by marktwain
Six months ago, this correspondent wrote an essay on Incrementalism v. “all or nothing”. It was well-received:
Roland T. Gunner ~ “Mr. Weingarten, I take my hat off to you. This article is the best thing I have read in modern memory. Now, tell me, how do we get incremental movememt on reppealing the NFA? And for all you naysayers, sit down, shut up, or help us get it done.”
Here is how it is being done, and what needs to be done in the future.
The first step is well underway. It is to educate the gun culture and the general public about the history and failure of the National Firearms Act. When people learn the history and the effects of the act, support for it evaporates.
When people understand the NFA is the result of a political compromise that did nothing to stop crime; but results in thousands of Americans being punished for peaceful acts, support for the NFA drops to politically irrelevant numbers. Support for the NFA is fairly wide, but very shallow, propped up by the dominant Media and their creation and proliferation of false narratives.
The Supreme Court is a follower, not a leader, in protecting the Bill of Rights. When activists and states make enough progress showing the insanity of the NFA, the courts will eventually follow.
The second step, again, well underway, is to overwhelm the system with compliance. This sounds counter-intuitive, but it has a strong and corrosive effect on the NFA. One of the insidious components of the NFA was to create extreme, prohibitive taxes
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Decent article. I wonder if the author is now on the DHS domestic terrorist watch list.
Seems like a pathway to fully gut our Freedom and Liberty.
When do we see Lexington and Concorde 2.0?
I’ll settle for repeal of 18 USC 922 (o).....better yet, chapter 4 of the gun control act of 68.
Excellent review...
If it’s repealed it doesn’t need reforming.
At what point does “in common use” get to play in a case?
Do 19 million suppressor and or SBRs meet the standard or is it 19,000,001?
Adky, I personally hold that the NFA, GCA, FOPA, VOLKLER, LAUTENBERG etc. will never be repealed, only expanded.
If you are drinking poison that is killing you, you don’t incrementally reform how much you drink.
The NFA, and all other Federal regulations made under it, are blatantly unConstitutional and must be repealed entirely and immediately.
We got here incrementally, not all at once.
20 years ago, there was one state with Constitutional (permitless) carry. Now there are 21, and more coming. All done incrementaly.
I do not know when the "breaking point" for suppressors will be. We may be there already.
"All or Nothing" is a strategy that has failed for 50 years. Incrementalism has been working.
The first thing to do to get out of a hole is to stop digging. We have pretty much done that, at the state level. The Supreme Court has a "carry outside the home" case coming up. We will know the result in late June.
In a way, that’s true nationally, but for a state, I it has not been truly incrementally.
From outright Prohibition to a permit/ license system to permitted/ constitutional carry not withstanding, one law from Congress could eliminate the states’ progress entirely. Of course, most States would immediately sue but it still could and likely will one day happen.
Nice! Thanks for posting!
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I think there are many merits to these ideas. I fully support this initiative.
Form 1 being submitted soon. Also, SBR to help make it a tsunami.
When I talk to people from Europe, they are astounded at our insane suppressor/silencer laws.
Yes.
It sure is much nicer at the range when people are using suppressors on the more powerful cartridge guns. I know people really don’t like my braked 6.5PRC. Much more pleasant to have a can on it.
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