Posted on 03/01/2017 5:04:58 AM PST by marktwain
On 21 February, 2017, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that common semi-automatic rifles are not protected by the Second Amendment of the Constitution. The ban includes semi-automatic rifles that can take detachable magazines and have two of these three features: folding stock, grenade/flare launcher, or flash hider. There is a long list of existing models that are explicitly banned, including all AR15s and variants, and all AK47s and variants. The list of banned guns includes some firearms that are not semi-automatic, such as a version of the Mossberg 500 pump shotgun. The law also bans all detachable magazines that hold more than 10 rounds.
As explained below, we are satisfied to affirm the district court’s judgment, in large part adopting the Opinion’s cogent reasoning as to why the FSA contravenes neither the Second Amendment nor the Fourteenth. We diverge from the district court on one notable point: We conclude — contrary to the now-vacated decision of our prior panel — that the banned assault weapons and large-capacity magazines are not protected by the Second Amendment. That is, we are convinced that the banned assault weapons and large-capacity magazines are among those arms that are “like” “M-16 rifles” — “weapons that are most useful in military service” — which the Heller Court singled out as being beyond the Second Amendment’s reach. See 554 U.S. at 627 (rejecting the notion that the Second Amendment safeguards “M-16 rifles and the like”). Put simply, we have no power to extend Second Amendment protection to the weapons of war that the Heller decision explicitly excluded from such coverage.
The M-16 rifles mentioned in Heller were included in the category “Dangerous and unusual weapons. From the Heller decision:
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They ignored that pesky Constitution also.
“And here we see the majestic progressive jurist: the only animal capable of not only sticking its head completely up its *** but also force others to act as if the Founders, Framers, it’s non-progressive, or just less looney if still progressive, forebears likewise had their heads shoved firmly up their own ***es too.
SOP for the lawless.
Just wait unti they rule that since revolvers discharge a single projectile with each pull of the trigger, they are essentially semi-automatic weapons.
When do the hearings start for our new Supreme court pick? We need him on the bench yesterday.
The basic design is a century and a half old.
If I’m ever at a night club, work party, or concert, and terrorists burst in with rifles, the first thing I’m going to check for is whether their rifles have a folding stock, grenade/flare launcher, or flash hider. If they don’t have even one of those features, I’m not going to worry. The 4th Circuit has assured us that those features are what make rifles dangerous.
We'll see about that.
Well, folks in the Fourth... you have made your ruling. Now go enforce it.
I’ll be waiting.
Well, folks in the Fourth... you have made your ruling. Now go enforce it.
I’ll be waiting.
Excellent point.
Like the saying goes,
Come and take it.
Ass holes
IIRC the Caetano decision to which you refer was one in which the Supreme Court of my beloved home state (Massachusetts) was bitch-slapped by SCOTUS for having completely ignored their clear ruling in Heller and that other big decision (can't recall its name).
No court,not even the 9th Circus,deserves to be bitch-slapped more than the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
4th circus/kangaroo courts/America’s anti-Constitutionalist robes mullahs ALERT!
The Constitution’s a dead letter.
NY and Connecticut come to mind.
Rule as you wish, but I am pre common core. I can read. The second amendment was put in place to reign in those who would be rulers.
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