The text of the Second Amendment is explicit, and since it is a right, the people, not the government, decide. Yet, gun-control activists are still intent on attempting to define exactly what "arms" are protected by it.
Firearms registries have long been associated with the overreaching abuse of government power and the desire by some anti-gun officials to then confiscate registered firearms. This isn't a cycle we want to play out in America.
A group of senators recently sent out a scathing letter to the attorney general and head of the ATF over what they call enforcement of "secret guidance."
As part of the historical pendulum that swings between freedom and slavery, the right to bear arms is always under attack by elites seeking absolute power.
Just four days after the patriots defeated the Red Coats at Lexington and Concord in 1775, the inhabitants of occupied Boston were desperate to flee the city.