By Martin H. Levinson

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By Gunnar ”Gun ’em Down” QAnonski

In 2008, the US Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment guarantees the right of individuals to own guns. But that’s not all it guarantees. It assures the right to bear any sorts of arms, a right sorely needed in a world where weapons development has made rifles and pistols basic arms of last resort.

If the government sent a mechanized armored brigade to my house to confiscate my computer because they were looking for the evidence I have on my hard drive that Hillary Clinton and AOC fired the fatal shots that killed JFK, I wouldn’t have enough firepower with the legally permissible guns I have stowed in my underwear drawer to keep them from busting into my home. If a bunch of M13 gang members equipped with machineguns and rockets purchased on the q.t. from arms dealers in Nicaragua broke into my bank to steal my safety deposit box (which contains my marriage certificate, stock certificates, and proof that Kamala Harris is Bill Clinton’s love child), the guys guarding the bank would have no chance to stop them, even if the guards were toting AR-15s or AK-47s. If Al-Qaeda loyalists, riding in Humvees and bulletproof personnel carriers, invaded my town to set up shop, there’s no way I could defend the burg with lawfully allowed munitions.

The fly in the ointment is the National Firearms Act (NFA), passed in 1934 and amended in 1968, that pertains to machineguns, sawed-off shotguns and rifles, and “destructive devices—grenades, mortars, rocket launchers, large projectiles, and other heavy stuff. Acquiring these weapons is subject to prior approval by the Attorney General, and federal registration is required for possession. Clearly, with these repressive and unconstitutional restraints, the government is meddling where they have the no statutory right to intrude.

The Second Amendment says, “the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” The Founding Fathers did not specifically define “arms” but I am sure these Enlightenment thinkers knew what were considered arms in the 1700s would evolve over the years. Back then people defended themselves with muskets, long rifles, knives, bayonets, axes, swords, sabers, and pole weapons. If you could afford a cannon you could get one but cannons were tough to transport and loading them was a pain in the ass. You slew as best you could, though by present standards the ways our Revolutionary forbears knocked off people was cumbersome and woefully inefficient.

George Washington would have killed to get his hands on an M777 howitzer, an M1 Abrams tank, a belt-fed M240 machinegun, an M67 fragmentation grenade, or some tactical nuclear weapons. But all he had to off the Redcoats with was the primitive weaponry extant in the 18^th century. Fortunately, we live in the 21^st century. The weapons I mentioned at the beginning of this paragraph, if they were made legal for all Americans to own, would make a real difference in the fight against the thugs and brigands that are around now, banditti like the trillions of illegal aliens who are sneaking into our country through its undefended southern border to rape, pillage and wreak havoc in the land, the billions of inner-city criminals who are robbing, rioting, and roaming wild on the streets of our nation’s inner cities, and the millions of reformist government bureaucrats that can show up at your door at any hour of the day or night and make outrageous demands on your liberty just because they are bullies and feel like it.

The NRA (National Reprobates Association) needs to get cracking on expanding the kinds of weapons people can legally own. The lawfully sanctioned firearms in the mix today may be okay for killing individuals and small-to-mid-sized groups of human beings but they are not the über killing machines these violent times demand. Such weapons are currently reserved for the US military, which is a shame because if the good people of America could possess advanced military-grade armaments that are currently barred to them, the immigration problem would be solved, crime would be negligible, overseas terrorists would stay the heck away, and the feds would learn to mind their own business and stick to their last.

If you like what I am proposing, please write to your Congressional representative and ask them to support the revocation of the National Firearms Act. All weapons are “destructive” and it’s unfair to discriminate amongst them.  This is a free country and discrimination is against the law.

Let’s make America great again, like it was before gun regulations and a stripped-down interpretation of the Second Amendment put a damper on our ability to defend ourselves. Let’s overturn the NFA and get that ability back. It’s never to late to do the right thing, which is to allow individuals the right to possess bazookas, stingers, javelin anti-tank weapons, and other equally powerful ordnance. The time has long since gone for people’s only option to be “stick to your guns.”