Committee votes on AWB

[hansberrym]

33. Maybe not surprising, but dissappointing that the conversation has not moved forward.

Back in the 90's there were many politicians and law professors claiming that there was no individual RKBA at all. Hickman held the RKBA to be a states right and later Silveira held it to be a collective right. When these decisions were shown to be baseless, the limited individual right theory became the last remaining alternative to the broad individual right interpretation. It was as though any interpretation, no matter how extreme or lacking in historical support, was preferred to simply admitting that the RKBA was an individual right of the people.

Some predicted that once the courts held for an individual right, then opposiiton to further reasonable restrictions would lessen.
But that has not been the case, at least not yet. I believe this is because some people who claim only to want reasonable restrictions actually want to take away guns, and the arguments they present betray thier true intentions.