Think about this....the Republican element of our government is the paid bitch of a right wing fringe group. They can't take a shit without the NRA's permission. The NRA should be raided, the organization dismantled and the headquarters brought to the ground with TNT. They're a fucking terrorist group.

Well I can not think of any good reason for people not being able to buy a cheap crate of AK-47...nothing wrong with that at all LOL

Actually, we can own military vehicles if we want, including tanks. They just can't have functioning guns.

Although I haven't seen modern tanks out there but there are lots of ww2 and 70s/80's era tanks in private collections.

They even let us have those in Canada. Ours are limited to 5 rounds though. The Yugo ones are hard to find here but the Russian and Chinese ones can be bought for less than $250 Canadian each at Canadian Tire lol.

They do not want a law. A law is much harder to change or amend it to be powerless.

They want it done through executive order. They might be able to do that but the first challenge to it will dismiss it in a federal or supreme court. The same stuff they were accusing Obama of... legislating from the executive branch.
Much the same way they want to legislate though the supreme court.
But the ATF does not have the power to 'create' regulation. Just enforce what congress passes. So congress will have to authorize them to create rules. Which they are not going to do because the next POTUS could quickly end it all together and create more stringent rules without congressional approval.

Some segments of the executive branch (presidents enforcement dept folks) have been given the authority to create regulation. Like the Food and Drug Admin. & the EPA. And only with some things for the FAA & FCC. Everyone who has authority has a very defined limited scope to work within.

So that is why you see congress always tries to keep a tough budget battle... so they can limit the funding to those agency's that have the authority to create regulation.
And in effect be powerless to enforce any of it from the lack of funds.


So if they create no law...
Those congressmen don't have to answer to their constituents next election.
And the measure can be softened at will by executive order when nobody is watching or cares.

And we have our constitution turned upside down. Nobody wants to do the job they ran for and was elected to do.

The act stated: "Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."

Soldiers defending the nation are not executing the civil laws neither are soldiers rendering aid to civilians.

Soldiers acting as policemen (enforcing civil laws) is my understanding of the posse comitatus prohibited acts. There is an allowed use of soldiers to cure civil insurrection or riots.

Good stuff...
But, who gets to determine civil insurrection or riots by definition since it is not provided ?

I have never seen a crowd of people leveled with a WHOPPER in a few minutes that volunteered for the experience unaware of the dangers.

"These bills are intentionally overreaching and would ban commonly owned firearm accessories."

I am wondering how you can say that because they have not allowed one to come to the floor for a discussion, Let alone a vote. They fear that they will pass so they use house procedure rules to keep them from coming to the floor in the first place.

You missed the point. Our military is not allowed to conduct "military operations" on US soil blah blah blah expect but they can.

I understand why this exists - they don't want the military to go to war with it's civilian population. However, if civil war was to break out do you think the US military will just stand by and say "have at it"? No, of course not.

The US Constitution is very much like the bible - Written a long time ago, and a lot of things no longer apply. The bible states you can be stoned to death for wearing clothes made up of two different threads, yet we violate that on a regular basis. The US Constitution is very similar - it was written in time when civilians feared their governments, mostly because US citizens at the time felt poorly treated by England and even more so after England sent their armies after us. This needs to be removed from our Constitution - Trust me, if our military decides to turn on the US population what the Constitution says will not matter, and the civilian population will have zero hope of fighting against the US military. It's not like everyone has muskets these days.

Sure sure. I understand that. But does anyone really think a handful of civilians are going to take on the US military? LOL.

They have before learn American history before commenting on it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army

But the state militias (state national guard) do have F22 Raptors !