That's right, Biden's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has made the simple act of owning a pistol braced firearm a federal crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison, should the many disabled veterans and millions of other gun owners who use them fail to register with the ATF or dispose of their previously lawfully-owned accessory. 

It is the ATF, after all, that had made clear in written opinions over the past decade (going back to the Obama-Biden Administration), that the braces in question were not in violation of federal law.  

While this is yet another attack on the Second Amendment, even more damning, this tyrannical monstrosity is an attack on the rest of the Constitution as well. After all, Congress makes laws, not the President, so let's return to first principles.  

More than 800 years ago, the Magna Carta put into writing for the first time the principle that the king and his government were not above the law, placing limits on royal authority by establishing that "no free man shall be seized [or] imprisoned…except by the lawful judgement of his peers and the law of the land." 

And who makes that law? More than 300 years ago, John Locke, our Founding Fathers' single most important muse, said flat-out that legislative power is "sacred and unalterable in the hands where the community have once placed it; nor can any edict of anybody else…have the force and obligation of a law." 

More specifically, over 250 years ago, Montesquieu – perhaps the Founding Fathers' favorite Frenchman – argued, "When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty."