Lawmaker Calls For AR-Style Rifles To Be Locked Up At Gun Clubs

By Tom Knighton

It’s amazing how text so simple can be completely misunderstood by supposedly learned men and women. I am, of course, referring to the plain text of the Second Amendment, which reads, “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the people’s right to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”

It seems so simple to understand, yet politicians keep missing it. Take the latest example, one Rep. Bill Foster:

Foster was responding to the mass shooting in Las Vegas where Stephen Paddock killed 59 people by firing from the Mandalay Hotel from two tripod mounted AR15s from the 32nd floor.

“I would hope that when you look at what’s happened with mass shootings in the last years that we, at a minimum, establish the principle that if you are going to own a military-type weapon that should be locked away in a gun club and not carried in public – that is completely consistent with the Second Amendment and it’s a principle that we should apply nationally,” he told reporters outside the US Supreme Court.

Foster argues that the second amendment does not block the federal government from ordering certain rifles to be locked up …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms