"Dave Kopel of the Golden, Colo-based Independence Institute takes a hybrid view of the constitutionality of registration. "Registration of militia guns, the [single] gun which a person brings to militia service, to fulfill his militia obligation, is almost certainly constitutional," he says. "As for non-militia guns... the First Amendment parallel is Supreme Court rejection of registration of NAACP members." http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/21/taking_liberties/entry5258192.shtml Dave Kopel is the only "scholar" who has thought this through and correctly understands the issue. You can not have an effective counter-balance to rogue government if the governments knows each element of the other's strength and can sap (seize) it at any time. No incipient guerrilla movement makes the enemy the guardian of its arsenals. ******************************************************************* Professor Joseph Olson, J.D., LL.M. o- 651-523-2142 Hamline University School of Law (MS-D2037) f- 651-523-2236 St. Paul, MN 55113-1235 c- 612-865-7956 [email protected] http://law.hamline.edu/node/784
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