#second-amendment

#second-amendment

Before Donald Trump had even won last year's presidential election, Gun Owners of America, one of the country's most aggressive second amendment champions, saw an opportunity to use the coming budget bill to overturn one of the country's core gun laws. Their target: the National Firearms Act. Passed in 1934 in response to gangster-era crime, the NFA imposed registration and a $200 tax on machine guns, silencers, and short-barreled rifles and shotguns.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that California's law requiring background checks for bullet purchases is unconstitutional, violating the Second Amendment.

Democratic citizens want "to exercise in arms for the defense of their country: of 80000 men able to bear arms among them it is believed scarcely any will refuse to sign this demand."