Sam Adams
Member
With the Kelo case that's before the USSC this week, everyone is talking about property rights - IOW, the rights connected up with real property (i.e. real estate). However, this has me thinking (which is dangerous, I know)...
...let's say that New London wins, and every village, town, city, county and state can now buy your property for "market value" (whatever that means, which if nothing else means lots of money for lawyers), whether you want to sell it or not. Does anything prevent a local government from forcing you to sell it your guns, ammo, reloading equipment and components, bayonets, etc., which it will then turn around and sell to some foundation funded by George Soros and a bunch of other anti-gun billionaires for a small profit (thereby justifying "public use")? Could this be the new tool of the antis?
...let's say that New London wins, and every village, town, city, county and state can now buy your property for "market value" (whatever that means, which if nothing else means lots of money for lawyers), whether you want to sell it or not. Does anything prevent a local government from forcing you to sell it your guns, ammo, reloading equipment and components, bayonets, etc., which it will then turn around and sell to some foundation funded by George Soros and a bunch of other anti-gun billionaires for a small profit (thereby justifying "public use")? Could this be the new tool of the antis?