State Senator Wants to Make Every Citizen a Militia Member to Skirt Gun Laws Day After Mass Shooting
Republican South Carolina state senator moved forward with his attempt to block new federal gun control laws by passing a state bill that would make every citizen a militia member.
State Senator Tom Corbin's proposal would expand the South Carolina's definition of an "unorganized militia." South Carolina's state constitution currently allows the governor to form a militia using any "able bodied male citizens" aged 18 to 45. Under the new legislation, anyone 17 or older who can legally own a gun would automatically be a militia member unless they opt out. The proposal moved forward along party lines in a 2-1 vote during a Senate subcommittee hearing on Tuesday.
The bill is intended to skirt new gun control laws by using language found in the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment, which states "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." Corbin told the Associated Press that his proposal "would prevent the federal government from ever confiscating any of your weapons" because "the federal government cannot disarm a standing army."
Tuesday's hearing was scheduled before Monday's deadly shooting in Boulder, Colorado. Corbin had previously proposed the bill during the administration of former President Barack Obama but set it aside while former President Donald Trump was in the White House, telling AP that he "didn't fear any gun confiscation" during a Republican administration.
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