Abolish the ATF
The Second Amendment is not ambiguous. Its language is clear and concise: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
Every word of that sentence was carefully chosen by men who had just fought a bloody revolution to throw off the yoke of tyranny. They understood, from bitter experience, that a government unrestrained in its power over the people’s arms would soon become a government unrestrained in all other areas of life.
The right to keep and bear arms is not a privilege granted by the government — it is an inherent right, one that predates the Constitution itself. The Second Amendment does not create this right; it simply prohibits the federal government from infringing upon it. As James Madison explained in The Federalist, No. 46, the ultimate check on federal overreach is an armed citizenry. Thus, any federal agency that seeks to regulate firearms is acting in open defiance of the Constitution.
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