In many cases, firearms confiscation followed only after the groundwork was laid by purportedly “reasonable” regulation and registration of firearms. History illustrates just how readily the standardless “reasonable” regulation of firearms invites large scale abuse by the state and ultimately paves the way for wholesale confiscation of arms and the mass slaughter of the disarmed (much like the massive censorship that likely would arise under a rule permitting “reasonable” regulation of speech and press).

Daniel L. Schmutter
February 8, 2008
D.C. v. Heller
Brief of amicus curiae Jews For The Preservation of Firearms Ownership in support of respondent.