"Shall not be infringed"... (R) Rep Rand Paul's Amendments; rejected in Patriot Act (Video)

Senator Rand Paul's proposed amendment to preserve gun owner protections, enacted in 1986 as part of the McClure-Volkmer Firearms Owners Protection Act; REJECTED, and later defeated, via vote...

-View video segment, at hearing...

 
Warrantless wiretapping and unfettered business record gathering of people unconnected to terrorists, is outrageously broad power to give to the government...[Read]

Our 2nd amendment civil liberty receives massive bi-partisan support ... The extent of this infringement, was apparently not fully understood, by some of the Representatives who struck-down this amendment.......

Video: Govt Gunrunning Scandal Update: [Read]

"One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms." -Constitutional scholar and Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, 1840

Firearms Legislation In The 112th Congress: [read]
But, creating a series of moving "no-gun" zones; would create a comprehensive series of criminal "go zones"....

This must be pursued as vigorously as it was, by the Minority of the Pennsylvania Convention (1787)...

The Patriot Act has been turned onto the People...
-Citizen tragically subjected to a SWAT invasion: [VIDEO]

-NOTE: Without Paul’s exemption, it is possible that the BATFE could go to a secret (FISA) court, and, in a one-party (ex parte) proceeding, obtain an order to produce every 4473 in the country... The government would have a list of every gun buyer in the country, going back decades... [SOURCE]

-WATCH DEBATE LIVE: C-SPAN

Others Weigh In:
-THE DANGER ROOM: [READ]
-FRONTLINE VIDEO: [VIEW]

-Cross-posted at [PoliticalBarbay]