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He claims to be a constitutional scholar but obviously has no better understanding of it than our other scholar in the White House.
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He doesn't seem to understand the difference between regulation and infringement, or the distinction between the prefatory ("milita") and operative ("the people") clauses of the 2nd Amendment.
The militia in the prefatory clause can be regulated, which is to say disciplined and consistently equipped. However, the individual right protected by the operative clause is not subject to regulation. It is simply
not to be infringed.
Since the 16-hour Illinois training requirement Metcalf praises affects the rights of individuals (as protected in the operative clause), it is not regulation. It is infringement. Regulations make things orderly, infringements disrupt and break things.
So, the talking heads are inaccurate when they pontificate about "reasonable regulations" on privately-owned firearms.