And it’s a tax on a constitutionally protected right. It will be found unlawful as soon as they finish getting the legal foundations fully fleshed out in the courts. But the major concepts of keep, bear, arms, “right of the people,” and infringed have formal legal definitions now from the Supreme Court. Only took 200 years, but now we have the full definition of the operative clause of the second amendment and in theory the unqualified command of the second amendment now has teeth.

“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”