Bullwhip wrote:srothstein wrote:AEA wrote:But what Law gives them the AUTHORITY to run serial numbers of CHL holder's guns?
The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, as interpreted by the Supreme Court of the United States.
Well, more specifically, our principals of anything not forbidden is legal.
I thought that was for th epeople and was the other way around for the goverment: if its not allowed for the goverment to do it its prohibited.
You're thinking of the Tenth Amendment but that was repealed because it limits Federal power too much.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.