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Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals decides the Second Amendment is just a suggestion
Canada Free Press ^ | 02/23/17 | Dan Calabrese

Posted on 02/23/2017 9:46:15 AM PST by Sean_Anthony

Law. Made up

Liberal politicians who run states and cities have certain habits they come back to again and again. One is the passage of gun bans they know perfectly well are clear violations of the Second Amendment. Why do the do this? Partly because ideologically they can’t help themselves. But also: They hope to create test cases in the courts that, they hope, will produce favorable rulings and thus establish case law that renders the entire Second Amendment null and void.

Toward that end, the State of Maryland scored a very big victory today, as the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an “assault weapons” ban that can’t possibly be defended as constitutional. So why did it survive? Because there are many in the federal judiciary who share the goal of repealing the Second Amendment, and hope to be the judges assigned to these test cases. The Fourth Circuit really outdid itself with this one.


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: fourthcircuitcourt; guns; heller; secondamendment

1 posted on 02/23/2017 9:46:15 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
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To: Sean_Anthony

Gorsuch needs to be approved ASAP. I say, just go nuclear. Get it done. Yes, this means the next Rat president can do the same, but I expect the next Rat president to do so anyway. Lets beat them to the street fight for once. Use the nucular option (as GW Bush would say it — nucular).


2 posted on 02/23/2017 9:56:21 AM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (The GOP will see the light, because Trump will make them feel the heat.it is hugh and series)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Shoulkdn’t the headlines in this case be more on the lines of::

4TH CIRCUIT OVERTURNS SUPREME COURT, OVERRULES LONG STANDING PRECEDENT.


3 posted on 02/23/2017 10:05:35 AM PST by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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To: Sean_Anthony
Invalid decision propping up an unconstitutional law. When courts abdicate their legitimate role in pursuit of imposing policy they favor, we have a duty to ignore them. They will enslave us if we let them.
4 posted on 02/23/2017 10:06:34 AM PST by Trod Upon (Government employees and welfare recipients are both net tax consumers. Often for life.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Some of King George III’s boys in black burkas.


5 posted on 02/23/2017 10:10:23 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. - Clint Eastwood)
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To: Sean_Anthony

“Fake law”, enforced by mafioso.


6 posted on 02/23/2017 10:19:34 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Sean_Anthony

Right now, in much of the country the 2A is a privilege doled out by generous politicos.

The fed gov’t has a definition for everything but the term “infringe.”

This has to change and it will require far more that just Scalia being replaced. Congress needs to jump in also.


7 posted on 02/23/2017 10:25:26 AM PST by umgud
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To: Sean_Anthony

Since the left keeps losing ground at the ballot box, they’ve got to get their fifth column black-robed wonders to make us sickened by their evil.


8 posted on 02/23/2017 11:34:32 AM PST by afsnco (18 of 20 in AF JAG)
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