“The ATF’s rulebook is a minefield—barrel lengths, stock types, ammo storage rules. Miss some obscure regulation you didn’t even know existed, and you’re a criminal. Doesn’t matter if you’re a law-abiding hunter or a range regular; the system’s rigged to catch you. It’s not just guns, either—importing flowers wrong or shipping seafood in the “wrong” bag can sink you too.”
Ever tried counting how many laws you’re supposed to follow? Good luck.
A former U.S. Attorney, now with Right on Crime, points out a brutal truth: nobody knows how many federal crimes are on the books. Thousands? Tens of thousands? Pick a number. Add in state laws and the 300,000 regulatory offenses some bureaucrat cooked up, and it’s a mess.
This isn’t just confusing—it’s dangerous, especially for those of us who care about our rights, like the Second Amendment.
Too many laws shred fairness. James Madison nailed it in the Federalist Paper #62:
“It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess what it will be tomorrow.”
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