Original Intent's Chapter 44 Project has been named for the main piece of federal anti-gun legislation -- United States Code, Title 18, Chapter 44 -- the Federal Firearms Act. We encourage you to read what Chapter 44 really says and what it actually means. A groundbreaking treatise on the proper application of Chapter 44 can be read at http://www.originalintent.org/edu/chapter44.php.
To our knowledge, this groundbreaking information has never been adjudicated by a federal court. We believe it is the key to ending the infringement of the right to keep and bear arms enjoyed by the Citizens of the states of the Union.
Preliminary indications are that national groups that purport to support your right to keep and bear arms are rejecting the idea of using the information, nor will they even disseminate the information to their members. In short, they appear to be placing a gag on the facts. Again, we have to ask "Why?"
An interesting treatise. It brings to mind some questions, primarily, even if they're right, what makes them think the federal judges would allow it to be brought out in open court (I'm thinking Wayne Fincher here)?
Still, it always irritates me no end when the unimaginative among us immediately dismiss a novel idea and insist on staying the course that led us into the morass. This is something that a lot of thought and research has gone into, and it deserves an open mind.
I'll send a link to this post to Dave Champion at Original Intent, and see if he'd like to set aside a day when he can answer some no holds barred questions from me and anyone else who wishes to chime in, kind of like what we did in the David Hardy and Matthew Bracken interviews.
[Via Jeff from Wisconsin]