2019-4-5 UPDATE 1: The Supreme Court has denied the latest stay application. (Justices Thomas and Gorsuch would have granted.) We are in the process of requesting a stay from the D.C. Circuit and will seek en banc rehearing.
2019-4-5 UPDATE 2: If a person wishes to turn in their affected bumpstock device, Chief Counsel Joshua Prince of Firearms Industry Consulting Group, who is representing Firearms Policy Foundation and numerous other plaintiffs in Guedes, et al. v. ATF, et al., suggests that individuals surrender the item under protest to preserve your rights. You can read more about that process at the FICG website here. We will continue to aggressively litigate this case and work to defend American gun owners from this unconstitutional and unlawful ban mandated by President Donald Trump. [More]
What I don't see is a way for
plaintiffs who received a stay and retained possession of their property to surrender it now without getting arrested.
If one is going to be arrested for turning it in now, then there's no point in turning it in at all. This is another example of why I maintain that we should be asserting our COMMON LAW rights, as men and women, and not pleading (begging) for 14th Amendment "citizenship privileges" as "persons" defined under statutory law. The "civil" rights established under the 14th Amendment are NOT natural rights, as protected under common law. They are "rights" GRANTED by the corporate federal and state governments to the fictional "persons" called "citizens" - which can also be withdrawn by those governments by (commercial) administrative procedure, as in what just happened.
ReplyDeleteYou can still get a common law decision from the U.S. Supreme Court, but you MUST go in under common law, and forego "representation" by the Federal Bar Association licensed attorneys. That is strictly commercial law, not natural/common law.
-MadMagyar
At least we got two. I wonder where Alito and Kavanaugh stand. I'm not sure Kavanaugh is reliable, and Roberts will be happy to limit the Second Amendment for the purpose of collegiality on the Court. We may end up losing 5-4 or not even get cert granted in the end.
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