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Some agency could easily download the membership list of the NRA, legally or illegally, although there seems to be no difference today.  The technology exists; the USA PATRIOT Act provides a pretext if one is needed.  Then the agency could break into the homes of all NRA members and confiscate their weapons.  There may not be a Fourth Amendment limitation because the Fourth Amendment may soon be deleted from the Constitution.  Probable cause has been shown because the members of the NRA probably caused themselves to own guns.  And probable cause may not even be required in the near future.  The agency may be prying many cold, dead fingers off many guns.  “I really wasn’t using my civil liberties anyway.”

This entry was posted on January 9, 2006 at 8:22 am and is filed under Civil Rights/Civil Liberties, Guns, Law, Politics, USA PATRIOT Act. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.