Is the NFA on its last leg?

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This statement by one of the most conservative Justice's is going to be a difficult hurdle to overcome:

In the Heller opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia struck down the District’s ban on handguns, holding that the Second Amendment gives citizens a right to own weapons “in common use at the time.” Justice Scalia said, however, that not every gun meets that definition. “The Second Amendment does not protect those weapons not typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes,” he wrote in Heller. Specifically, the Heller opinion cited “the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of ‘dangerous and unusual weapons,’” such as “weapons that are most useful in military service—M–16 rifles and the like.”

 

[Fredkrueger100]

This statement by one of the most conservative Justice's is going to be a difficult hurdle to overcome:

In the Heller opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia struck down the District’s ban on handguns, holding that the Second Amendment gives citizens a right to own weapons “in common use at the time.” Justice Scalia said, however, that not every gun meets that definition. “The Second Amendment does not protect those weapons not typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes,” he wrote in Heller. Specifically, the Heller opinion cited “the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of ‘dangerous and unusual weapons,’” such as “weapons that are most useful in military service—M–16 rifles and the like.”

And this is exactly why I say the Heller decision is not as great as everyone says. Scalia WASNT an originalist. That’s a fact. Had he been, he wouldn’t have wrote that opinion. He pulled that crap out of his butt. Because it isn’t in the text of the 2A, and it’s not in our history and traditions. Our founders were clear on what we the people should be able to have. By putting limits on what we can own, we have been neutered so we don’t stand a chance against the government. And they know it. Scalia knew what he was doing also. Regardless, we have given the government the power to own us. It’s on us.