I'm too lazy to make sure that Kopel makes the point that such a registration would only make sense if the government makes preparations to actually use the militia including regular drills, supplying weapons for those who couldn't afford them, laws requiring that weapons of a particular type and caliber be owned (and a certain amount of ammo be stored for militia use). Otherwise, no member need own a militia weapon (no militia obligation), much less produce one for registeration.
I also believe we've discussed this point several years ago. Phil Quoting "Joseph E. Olson" <[email protected]>: > "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 > ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
