Posted on 12/01/2023 6:23:04 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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H should also be silent.
Interesting. The case must have been before 1914, shotguns were especially useful in the trench warfare of WWI. Do you have a link (ChatGP isn't aware of the case)?
Gun-grabbing fascist governments are particularly dangerous, useful only for killing people, and we want to diminish that lethality.
The M1 has an internal magazine. It is fed via a metal clip.
No the case was heard in 1939, U.S. vs Miller. Miller had died by the time it got to SCOTUS so I don’t know if any arguments were made to actually overturn the National Firearms Act. Here is the quote regarding sawed-off shotguns:
“The Court cannot take judicial notice that a shotgun having a barrel less than 18 inches long has today any reasonable relation to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia, and therefore cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees to the citizen the right to keep and bear such a weapon.”
I found the summary here:
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/307/174/
The National Firearms Act was a reaction in the 30s to the widespread gangsterism of the time and the attempted assassination of President-elect FDR in Miami. The NFA originally was going to ban all handguns as well as short-barreled rifles, shotguns and silencers.
He says that like it a bad thing!
FWIW, the first commercially successful rifle fitted with a detachable box magazine was invented in 1879 by James Paris Lee (he of the Lee-Enfield rifle), a Scottish ex-pat living in Canada.
The M1 doesn't have a magazine, so it wouldn't qualify as an assault rifle.Neither does the Garand fire an intermediate-power cartridge, which also is elemental to the definition of an "assault rifle." Point of fact, the full-powered .30-06 Springfield round was part of what made the M1 a full-fledged "battle rifle."The M1 has an internal magazine. It is fed via a metal clip.
That is not true...
Detachable magazines are essential to improving WIFI reception throughout my house...
Uh.... yes?
And your problem with that is?
I hunt, I shoot for sport, fun and blah, blah, blah. But my guns are indeed weapons to kill people if it becomes necessary. So far, never has been necessary. Hopefully never will be. But as what happened in Israel on October 7th shows, some times you need to kill people. And you need your guns to be available, loaded and easy to operate.
Or you can listen while your child is baked alive.
I choose door number one.
Well, Angus has prominently displayed his non-usefulness!
For anything!
Talk about crabgrass in the lawn of progress!
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