Quote:"To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof." This is from Article I of the US Constitution, that thing that you so cherish.


Now, if you want to consider the fact that because the 2nd amendment says the right bear arms does not describe any specific arms, the ability of Congress to make laws that would determine what type of arms can and cannot be held or manufactured is a pretty easy thing to understand. And as I have stated in a previous post on this very page, even Scalia agrees with those of us that may "not be so bright" in your mind...

 

The Bill of Rights SPECIFICALLY excludes certain rights from government oversight. That's why it exists, to keep the federal government out of speech, the press, religion, to protect the people from certain infringing legal practices and to prevent the government from becoming more powerful than the people. If you told the Founders that the Constitution allowed the federal government to tell them they could purchase a Brown Bess but not a Ferguson theyd think you insane. These people owned their own cannons for crying out loud, and then wrote a very specific document with tons of corresponding documents saying that this was to be beyond the control of the government they were establishing because the government itself was the largest threat to freedom in existence. The spirit of their work is unequivocally toward restraining the government, not the People.

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