[Hoot Gibson]

I am struggling to understand why making it a very stringent process for a private citizen to obtain a military-grade assault weapon violates the 2nd Amendment.

A very stringent process for a private citizen to obtain a gun directly violates the "shall not be infringed" language of the Second Amendment. I am a firm believer in the existence of slippery slopes, and much of the logic by which liberals seek to employ to undermine our Second Amendment rights could be used later to undermine other constitutional rights. Every constitutional right should be treated as a precious possession not to be surrendered without a vigorous struggle ending in total defeat.