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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
The point was is that it happens and criminals know that people like you will let their guard down thinking they are cops. Once you're disarmed, then their fun begins. why would anyone willingly take that chance?
Free Hollis Wayne Fincher
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Why would anyone willingly want to allow other citizens to call themselves a militia and stockpile illegal weapons?
In the case of US v Fincher, a federal jury of Hollis Wayne Fincher's peers found him guilty last week of owning illegal machine guns and a sawed-off shotgun.
According to police, Fincher had
two .308-caliber machine guns, homemade versions of the Browning model 1919. The other firearms were 9 mm STEN design submachine guns and a sawed-off shotgun - not registered as required by federal law.
Fincher is a member of the Militia of Washington County, a
private militia established in 1994 to “to defend the liberty of the citizens of the state of Arkansas, and these United States, through education, participation, and action.” Fincher maintains possession of the guns, which he does not deny, was "reasonably related to a well regulated militia," based on the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Through the jury's wisdom, the citizens of Arkansas are safer with having these self-proclamined militias (ie vigiliantees) reigned in through the appropropriate application of the 2nd Amendment. Good thing, or every street gang in the country would be calling themselves "the Militia of (insert city name here).
/end threadjack