This is why I love Florida. They really go to the wall to protect our constitutional freedoms!
TAMPA — A man who shot a trucker to death in 1992 but was judged to be criminally insane seemed nervous Saturday when stopped for speeding east of Gainesville, a deputy reported.
David Harris Dunaway, 58, was wanted by federal authorities, the deputy learned. A grand jury in Tampa had indicted him on a gun charge Dec. 18, alleging that he had a pistol and 50 rounds of ammunition, illegal for someone with Dunaway’s medical history.
But in a search of his green Honda van, the deputy found more — 36 guns, 4,629 rounds.
Dunaway of Hawthorne reported that he was headed to the Waldo flea market to sell “some” of his personal collection, according to Alachua County sheriff’s spokesman Art Forgey.
I’m sure there’s a valid constitutional argument to be made. I just can’t think of one.
H/T Kush Arora.
We all have a constitutional right to own guns. Sort of. As a society we also have the constitutional right to restrict gun ownership. As in who can own a gun, the type of gun one can own, etc. But liberals never fight this battle in a narrow way. They constantly overreach. It would be very easy to get the public to agree that “crazy people” shouldn’t be allowed to own guns. Or that nobody should be allowed to keep a nuclear bomb in their home. To claim that the constitution doesn’t guarantee the right to own a gun is a silly argument that will never fly with the vast majority of Americans.
“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” Perhaps a long dead Egyptian priest can explain how Mr. Dunaway fits his 36 guns into a well regulated militia?