Judge Says Second Amendment Doesn't Protect AR-15s

Investor's Business Daily ^ | August 14, 2014 | IBD EDITORIALS

[Tzimisce]

Wow - they can just help themselves to our freedoms can’t they? :)

[samadams2000]

Citizen Nullification

[Vendome]

Judge is an activist and wrong.

Were the Kentucky and Pennsylvania rifles dangerous and unusual arms?

[Secret Agent Man]

before 1968 you could buy guns from ads in magazines.

you could also probably do .22 rifle target practice at school.

[ApplegateRanch]

And not just on ships. Private ownership of cannon on large estates was also common.

Too bad Southwest ranchers don’t have any these days.

[Secret Agent Man]

exactly. criminal. ought to be immediately removed from the bench.

[Secret Agent Man]

semi auto rifles are hardly unusual.

i would guess she’s racist. scary black gun.

[Jim from C-Town]

He will simply be over ruled.

[2ndDivisionVet]

What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts

[octex]

Ugly to the bone.
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That’s a man! A crossdresser with a woman’s wig! ...Women don’t let their eyebrows grow to look like fuzzy black caterpillars.

[MarkL]

In other words, this "judge" has decided that AR style firearms are "scary," and since they scare him, they're not covered by the 2nd Amendment.

Next up, he'll rule that conservative speech, as well as religious sermons that claim homosexuality is wrong and a sin, scare him, and all conservative speech isn't covered by the First Amendment, and any religious sermons must first be submitted to the federal committee of religious tolerance for vetting.

Mark

[MarkL]

you could also probably do .22 rifle target practice at school.

Through 1978, I was enrolled in JROTC at my high school, and shot every day after school in the school basement, using US Army supplied Winchester 52 or Remington 40x rifles, and Winchester T-22 ammo.

Mark

[MaxMax]

80-million gun owners in America... It would take how many administrations to go
door to door to collect them? my guess would be at least one hundred.

That cup is 1/2 full. Would people elect all pro gun to stop the Gov from going genocide on all the dogs?

[trebb]

The judge is correct - the 2nd Amendment doesn’t protect firearms at all - it protects the People from such as said judge by keeping the ownership of arms from being infringed.

[Cboldt]

Similar decision in Heller II, handed down October 2011, by a Circuit Court of Appeals. SCOTUS was petitioned to take the case, and turned it down.

Heller II holds that bans on "assault weapons" and "large capacity magazines" are constitutional. Same decision reached by this judge. Scalia deserves credit for the "dangerous and unusual" label. This court is following the lead set by Scalia in the "first" Heller case.

[Makana]

Quill pens...

Great point!

[servo1969]

"the court seriously doubts that the banned assault long guns are commonly possessed for lawful purposes . .. and is inclined to find the weapons fall outside Second Amendment protection as dangerous and unusual."

Uncommon? I can drive to Walmart right now and buy an AR-15. In fact, there are at least three Walmarts within 30 mins of my location and each has 2-3 ARs in their display case on any given day. But of course only criminals are buying these rifles, right? Criminals who come in, fill out a Form 4473 and have their purchases cleared by NICS.

Imbecile.

[DaveA37]

Bad ruling by the so-called “judge”. I would guess if that gets challenged it has a good chance of being overturned. The 2nd Amendment does NOT specify ANY specific type of weapon so the judge cannot "pick and choose" like odumbo has become so accustomed to doing.

[raptor22]

IBD EDITORIAL PING

[Mycroft Holmes]

Were the Kentucky and Pennsylvania rifles dangerous and unusual arms?

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Well, that was an interesting detour. The answer: of course they were; they are guns.

Characterized by unusually long rifled barrels and hand forged locks these weapons where enthusiastically adopted by German gunsmiths who immigrated to new settlements in South Eastern Pennsylvania in the early 1700s, and later in Virginia and other territories. Tax records from these locales indicate the dates these gunsmiths were in business.

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