Dick Metcalf has a back-page editorial [pdf] in this month’s Guns & Ammo that seems to have annoyed a few folks. The guy can be divisive, but then again, most gun writers are at some point. Some of the troubling things Charles Askins or Bill Jordan said over the years have faded into selective recollection, but things are different now. The internet never forgets.
Metcalf refers to regulation as the “initial criterion” of the 2nd Amendment. While that statement is not wrong in and of itself, he takes things off in a surreal and rambling direction.
I bring this up because way too many gun owners still seem to believe that any regulation of the right to keep and bear arms is an infringement. The fact is, all constitutional rights are regulated, always have been, and need to be.
This is the part where he hacked off no small amount of people. Continued...