Thursday, February 08, 2007

Chapter 44 Project

Original Intent's Chapter 44 Project has been named for the main piece of federal anti-gun legislation -- United States Code, Title 18, Chapter 44 -- the Federal Firearms Act. We encourage you to read what Chapter 44 really says and what it actually means. A groundbreaking treatise on the proper application of Chapter 44 can be read at http://www.originalintent.org/edu/chapter44.php.

To our knowledge, this groundbreaking information has never been adjudicated by a federal court. We believe it is the key to ending the infringement of the right to keep and bear arms enjoyed by the Citizens of the states of the Union.

Preliminary indications are that national groups that purport to support your right to keep and bear arms are rejecting the idea of using the information, nor will they even disseminate the information to their members. In short, they appear to be placing a gag on the facts. Again, we have to ask "Why?"

An interesting treatise. It brings to mind some questions, primarily, even if they're right, what makes them think the federal judges would allow it to be brought out in open court (I'm thinking Wayne Fincher here)?

Still, it always irritates me no end when the unimaginative among us immediately dismiss a novel idea and insist on staying the course that led us into the morass. This is something that a lot of thought and research has gone into, and it deserves an open mind.

I'll send a link to this post to Dave Champion at Original Intent, and see if he'd like to set aside a day when he can answer some no holds barred questions from me and anyone else who wishes to chime in, kind of like what we did in the David Hardy and Matthew Bracken interviews.

[Via Jeff from Wisconsin]

6 comments:

Kurt '45superman' Hofmann said...

I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer (especially this drawer)--so please bear with a dumb question. Is my understanding correct that the claim being made here is that the only way federal regulation of firearms has managed to pass Constitutional muster all this time is that the laws are not truly applicable on territory that is under the legal control of any state?

Could that really be the case?

For that matter, does legislation really need to pass Constitutional muster? I'm not sure the government pays enough attention to the Constitution to even bother going to the trouble of that kind of sleight of hand.

Anonymous said...

When I first read this thesis I was stunned.Then when I read it for myself in the Federal Code at http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfr-table-search.html#page1
clicked on Title 27, click continue, and click on chapter 0-399. Mr. Champions citations check out. Every
law that is foisted upon us is meticulously careful to be fully compliant with the Constitution. It is only when you read the definitions of the "legal terms" as created by congress, that are writen into the language of the law, does it become clear. Federal Firearms laws are being mis-applied , as are the tax codes. Come on guys, one comment? I thought surely that this would shouted from the rooftops. I really hope that Mr. Champion will take the time to have a Q&A with David and the readers of this site. Look it up for yourself, you won't be disappointed.

Kurt '45superman' Hofmann said...

David, has there been any word from Mr. Champion about a Question and Answer Day? I'm definitely interested in knowing more, but I really don't have the intellectual horsepower to follow it very well without a seriously dumbed-down explanation.

David Codrea said...

No.

Funny, because they complain that no one will help them publicize this, and when someone tries, they ignore it.

I sent him an email and a link to this post, as well as to my Bracken and Hardy interviews so he could see I was serious, but no reply. Maybe he's dealing with more important or personal issues, so I don't want to judge, but I don't have time to chase him down--the offer stands if he wants it.

Don't judge yourself so harshly. You're plenty savvy, and more importantly, open minded to learn more. That's more than the vast majority of your countrymen, by a long shot.

Kurt '45superman' Hofmann said...

It's unfortunate that he is apparently not interested in pursuing your offer.

Also--thanks.

viridari said...

The problem with originalintent.org is that, while it was a web site created with very noble intentions, it has been pretty much completely neglected for over 4 years now.

I enjoy Dave's radio show immensely. This is clearly one of his special talents. Running a web site seems to be pretty well outside of his core interests.