Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, has introduced legislation that would require gun owners to obtain a 5-year federal license to "buy and possess" a firearm.[More]I guess sanctuary cities for undocumented gun owners will be off the table...?
We live in an age where overt traitors can not only run for president but attract enough followers to where several lead in the polls and one of them could win.
[Via Neil W]
Plus it’s flagrantly unconstitutional out of the gate:
ReplyDeleteA state may not impose a charge for the enjoyment of a right granted by the federal constitution... The power to impose a license tax on the exercise of these freedoms is indeed as potent as the power of censorship which this Court has repeatedly struck down... a person cannot be compelled 'to purchase, through a license fee or a license tax, the privilege freely granted by the constitution.'
--MURDOCK V. PENNSYLVANIA 319 US 105 (1942)
An ordinance which... makes the peaceful enjoyment of freedoms which the Constitution guarantees contingent upon the uncontrolled will of an official -- as by requiring a permit or license which may be granted or withheld in the discretion of such official -- is an unconstitutional censorship or prior restraint upon the enjoyment of those freedoms. And our decisions have made clear that a person faced with such an unconstitutional licensing law may ignore it and engage with impunity in the exercise of the right of free expression for which the law purports to require a license.
--SHUTTLESWORTH v. CITY OF BIRMINGHAM AL