If you’re a fan of watching football (American football, not soccer, for any non-Americans reading), one of the most brutal things to see in a game is a pile on.
Now, if you’re not familiar with that term, what it means is that someone was tackled, but, then, multiple other people jumped on top of the tackle to form a pile of bodies.
It’s a pretty unpleasant thing to be a part of, but it’s particularly miserable to be on the bottom of that pile. Think of the weight of five or ten extra people on top of you, and not in a comfortable “weighted blanket” kind of way…
Not fun.
If the National Firearms Act were a person, though, I’d hope that it would feel the miserable pressure of multiple states piling on against it to get rid of it.
Because it needs to go the way of the dodo.
And that pile on? It’s happening now. Michael Clements writes,
Fifteen states have joined a federal lawsuit calling for the National Firearms Act (NFA) of 1934 to be abolished as an unconstitutional gun registry.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton made the announcement at the Gun Owners of America Gun Owners Advocacy and Leadership Summit in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Aug. 9.
Which states joined in on this lawsuit in addition to Texas?
Paxton said he and the attorneys general of Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Indiana, Louisiana, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming signed on to a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
I have to tell you, that is music to my ears because the NFA has long been a violation of the Second Amendment and has long been, as much or more than anything else, a gun registration scheme.
And history shows us that it is despots and tyrants that want gun registration, not the governments of a free people.
So, I’m glad that these AGs tagged on to this lawsuit. The NFA needs to go.