That's good news. I thought they had been run out by Kerry and Company.

Active, reserve or volunteer for the REAL state militias for nigh on 40 years. I still work with military units who are trying to recover lessons learned but forgotten.

"They did that back then?"

"Yes sure did."

But I do envy the present day equipment.

AR15 for Armalite Model 15. M16 for the fully automatic military version thereof. CAR-15 for the Carbine version. AR-10 was the same thing in the 7.62mm version. AR-7 was James Bond's .22 version in Fromj Russia With Love and the USAF survival rifle for a while. Inventor was Eugene Stone who also did the famous Stoner System used by SEALS. All of that family are COLT Firearms which I think with S&W got run out of Massachusetts by Kerry and Friends.

Other points of information I used to believe were false. Schmeisser is the inventor of the MP38 and MP40 Machinen Pistole. Yes you can silence a revolver as well as a pistol. The Russians did it one way by putting a regular suppressor on the barrel and a rubber like seal between the cylinder and the throat of the barrel. They then switched to silenced ammunition. The US namely S&W did the same thing with the .44 Magnum Dirty Harry style frame for the tunnel rats of Vietnam era. Simply a thickened case necked down to the actual .41 caliber for the bullet backed up by a piston with some powder loaded through the rear aperture before the primer was seated. Just like an aircraft carrier launching a fighter plane. Anymore misconceptions I'll be happy to correct if I know the answer such as setting headspace and timing on an Ma Deuce .50 caliber machinegun without the gauges.

I wonder if the descendants of the original inhabitants would agree. Personal survival is not included in the Second Amendment. Survival of the State meaning each of the Thirteen original Colonies turned independent countries was and is the issue.I'm still looking for the part that says Joselito you have the right to keep and bear AND USE arms to protect your ass against all comers. The answer to that is, it's implied and besides we don't want the financial burden of paying for your bullets. To the independent settler on the frontier who laid his or her life on the line each and every day it was a given that one form or level of government held the same meaning as any other. That partially changed when the second wave of post Civil War Europeans migrants arrived.Easy answer? Yes as a citizen you have the right to keep and bear arms - and by the way weekend drill starts this next Saturday morning on the village green.

Most of connects as it's straight out of the former Constitution or the interpretation of the various portions that provide for a military. I forgot one important part. You don't have the right to own a weapon. You have the right to own a weapon AND a legal responsibility to show up for government military service. Cherry picking the parts you like or don't like doesn't work. Easier to do like the Congressionals and the President and just ignore it. Rights AND Responsibiities go hand in hand.

Of course not but the point was it's not that dangerous and the USA is not that much safer unless you pick the safer areas. The rest is just common sense. Which is why expats and snowbirds congregate in certain areas and not in others. Same same USA. As for corrupt? Mexico could take lessons from the US Congress in that area. I see it going down down down south of the border as it affects every day business of living. By the by did the insider trading law for Congress ever pass? Did the former SecTreas Rubin ever get cuffed for ripping off the Social Security fund to line his own pockets? AG arrested for gun running?

They also have affordable pay as you go medicine. While I'm six months into what looks like a year long effort to get VA status assigned in the nearest area. And great food. Not at all like Taco Hell.

Good time to review a few pertinent facts.

Originally called State militias the National Guard to took their place. About 95% of the Guard budgets at least up to pre middle east wars days was federally provided. They were for a long time considered a great money maker for the States.

So what's the law on the National Guard and pay attention to the word National. They can be federally activated at any time and for any length of time.

It starts with the Second Amendment which states IN FULL right to bear arms will not be ...etc. and gives the reason. Defense of the State which use to mean the individual States but not means states. Alluded but not stated is the right and responsibility to self defense. But the hidden meaning is you buy a weapon you just joined the state militia anytime the government decides to use it that way.

Age of participants is listed but does NOT exclude women from military service. It only gives ages for men. Back when men were the cannon fodder and women the baby factories a form of political thinking still much in vogue.

Congress of the US gets to set all the regulations governing the military including the state militias and national guard units and yes their are state militias as well as NG units. Their purpose is to take over the armories in the absence of the units to preclude a repeat of WWII when the cities took over the buildings abandoned property. Troops came home - brand new building projects often Quonset huts to begin with.

There's another part that calls for the States to appoint all commissioned officers.

ALL of that works together and one part has been broadened into the military conscription acts or draft laws. The current version has another hidden part. Sign up at age 18 and that is not listed as voluntary then you are no longer eligible for the draft. You signed you are now a willing and ready individual awaiting a reporting date and time, Catch 22 strikes again. Don't want to repay your student loan? No problem Nothing to stop the lender (Government) from sending that time and place of appearance for duty notice. Then after qualifying on whatever passes for the new GI Bill it can be used or applied to your student loan scofflaw debt. Meanwhile your family gets full benefits and you get full pay - as a Private E whatever. Maybe if it was for medical school that part might improve

But think of it a whole ready willing and able pool of college graduates ready to go be cannon fodder - all cause they involuntarily volunteered at age 18. Or put another way. All because the anti-draft movement suddenly quit and went away happy not realizing they had been bamboozled and scammed.

I shouldn't be given the Presidebt new ideas my apologies for that part.

Women get a free ride on that one because they don't sign the card at age 18. But the women's equal rights movement imploded in the 90's anyway so like the anti draft movement it's history...

All it takes to get the military to do whatever is a plausible, properly constructed and presented five paragraph field order. Since that derives from the government it doesn't necessarily have to be based on true and accurate information. I give you the Tonkin Gulf Resolution and the invasion of Kosovo for two examples.