Every time I hear somebody talking about how stupid our elected representatives are I think of this clip from the movie
Silverado.
"You
idiot! He's hit everything he's
aimed at. "
How many times do these people have to tell us that they intend to disarm us before we believe that they intend to disarm us?
Every time the Supreme Court tells them they can't do that they simply tweak the Bill and run it back through.
And even if the Supreme Court
does eventually strike down the law, it's still in force until it gets to the Supreme Court.
I really think that one of the biggest advantages the other side has is that they have us convinced that they're dumb.
All of the above said, when I was stationed at Fort Carson the Commanding General of the fourth infantry division, Major General Guy Laboa, (I never met the man but I have talked to a few people who worked with him and they said he was an absolute ass) enacted a division wide rule that any Soldier beneath the rank of Sergeant (so anyone E4 and below) was not permitted to own or possess a firearm while they were assigned to his command.
As I understood it there was an exception if you had firearms at your parents house at your home of record but as long as you were assigned to his command you couldn't have your guns with you.
The order was routinely ignored but I never heard of anybody challenging it on Second Amendment grounds.
Shortly after I got out of the Army I was told that
all Service Members
regardless of rank were required to register
any firearm they owned (no matter where it was located) with their unit Commander. I'm not sure who the unit commanders registered them with.
I was out of the army when that rule was instituted so I never paid any attention to how it played out. I heard a lot of people protested it though.
The point I'm trying to make here is that I'm not sure that active duty Service Members really have Second Amendment rights anyway at least not in practice.