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How is volunteering to be an FFL any different than volunteering to keep and bear arms?
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The right to keep and bear arms is just that -- a right. There is no "right to have a job."
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Edit: I'm also not ready to stipulate everyone (ever)in the military and subject to the UCMJ volunteered.
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I never claimed that -- it's a straw man argument. At the moment, we have, in principle, a volunteer military. (The subject of whether there's an "economic draft," in which the military becomes the job of last resort for poor, undereducated young people, is a subject for another time and another forum.)
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has been in place, it has been either during a time of national emergency, or for a quite limited duration: two years, when we last had one in effect. Once that period is up, reenlistment is voluntary; the curtailment of rights during military service is one reason this is essential. And, (again in principle) a draft is meant to universal, hence fair.