(Deliberately) Unclear on the Concept

 "We only started banning machine guns from civilian hands in the 1980s," Winkler said. "Does that mean that there's a constitutional right to have machine guns because there's no strong historical precedent for banning those weapons?" [More]

I guess if you want to talk your way around it you can convince yourself that NFA '34 was not technically a "ban."  More to the point, there is no Constitutional authority for banning those weapons or for creating unalienable rights, and Winkler knows that.

[Via Jess]