The term “sporting purpose” is imbedded throughout U.S. gun control laws, and its use is a violation of the Second Amendment.
That has been my position for decades. My brother Chris raised the issue in a speech before the Gun Rights Policy Conference some three years ago, and our dad Neal Knox was making an issue of the language in the 1980s.
The “sporting purpose” language has been a plank in federal gun laws dating back at least to the National Firearms Act of 1934. The 1968 Gun Control Act, down to its current incarnation, institutes broad restrictions and prohibitions on a variety of firearms and ammunition, then exempt items that are deemed to be “particularly suitable for sporting purposes,” or are primarily intended for “lawful sporting purposes.”
As Dad used to say, “the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights are not about Americans’ right to keep and bear sporting goods.”
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Here is a question that has not been asked: Given all the initial 10 amendments, known as the Bill of Rights, why would we need a "right" to hunt or sport? The 1st is well known for the right(s) of speech, press, religion and peaceable assemble to petition of redress of grievances. The 3d is about the quartering of soldiers in both peace and war. So it makes zero sense to have a right to hunt placed between those two. Second, the phrase "the right of the people" is found in the 1st, 2nd and 4th amendments. It would make no sense to claim that in one amendment, it is a right of the individual and then in another amendment to claim that is it a collective right and not an individual right.
ReplyDeleteOn rare occasions, a leftie/collectivist will tell you the truth. The truth being what they actually want is to have the entire population disarmed and the mercy/control of totalitarian police state. You know, I once saw a movie where the only the military and police were allowed to have firearms; it was called "Schindler's List".
In my never to be humble opinion; LBJ was an evil SOB. I can not think of a single thing I can say to his credit. One of the single worst programs inflected on America was his "war on poverty". We would not have antichrist Obama as dictator...er...president had it not been for LBJ.
:) Well said and agreed. Thanks.
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