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People Have A 'Fundamental Right' To Own Assault Weapons, Court Rules
Huff Post ^ | 02/04/2016 | Cristian Farias

Posted on 02/06/2016 8:32:39 AM PST by Wildbill22

In a major victory for gun rights advocates, a federal appeals court on Thursday sided with a broad coalition of gun owners, businesses and organizations that challenged the constitutionality of a Maryland ban on assault weapons and other laws aimed at curbing gun violence.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit said the state's prohibition on what the court called "the vast majority of semi-automatic rifles commonly kept by several million American citizens" amounted to a violation of their rights under the Constitution.

"In our view, Maryland law implicates the core protection of the Second Amendment -- the right of law-abiding responsible citizens to use arms in defense of hearth and home," Chief Judge William Traxler wrote in the divided ruling.

Provisions that outlaw these firearms, Traxler wrote, "substantially burden this fundamental right."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; federalcourt; guncontrol; guns; lawsuit; ruling; secondamendment
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To: TexasGator

Btw, that’s why you were told to take your time.


101 posted on 02/06/2016 11:47:16 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: mylife
WTF is “hate crime”?

It is a liberals method of getting around double jeopardy.

102 posted on 02/06/2016 11:55:44 AM PST by itsahoot (1st impression. Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't speak in complete sentences. VoteTrump)
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To: itsahoot

It’s just another BS term brought to us by all these lawyers who get wealthy by creating never ending activist legal/litigation BS.

If America ever had real common sense leadership, all these PC terms and BS legal cases would never see the inside of a court room or even be legitimized.


103 posted on 02/06/2016 12:03:00 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: mylife
WTF is an assault weapon?

Ask any of the stray dogs in my neighborhood and they'll tell you it is a BB Gun!!

104 posted on 02/06/2016 12:09:35 PM PST by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Wildbill22

WTF is a “assault weapon?” A rock, shower curtain rod, screwdriver, hammer, car, printer, chair all can be used as a weapon to assault someone.


105 posted on 02/06/2016 12:17:01 PM PST by matt04
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To: ifinnegan

It’s really about protecting us from a tyrannical government.


106 posted on 02/06/2016 12:34:51 PM PST by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: EagleUSA
Yes, I could have made a million with a selling booth set up outside their main office....selling CLEAN UNDERWEAR to the men and women workers. Lots of "soiled" pants and panties when they read this one!!!!!

ROFLMAO

107 posted on 02/06/2016 12:40:06 PM PST by CDB (If orange is the new black, then Obama is the new orange...a clockwork orange.)
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To: i_robot73

Oh don’t ever doubt, I FIRMLY believe that this is THE issue that the second Civil War could originate.

I am happy that things seem to be moving in the right direction, for a change.

I can imagine the turmoil Obama must be feeling as his ‘legacy’ of gun control and health care seem to be falling apart.

I am hopeful the tide has turned.


108 posted on 02/06/2016 12:57:50 PM PST by Wildbill22 (They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton Williams Abrams)
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To: Wildbill22

“...Huffpost editors...”

They probably had a stroke over it.

No loss, if so.

We win big. Again.

Of course, I don’t need a court to tell me what I can and can’t own. The Constitution says it, it’s Law, and that’s the end of it.

They want them, well... you know the rest.


109 posted on 02/06/2016 2:12:35 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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110 posted on 02/06/2016 2:29:40 PM PST by DoughtyOne (the Free Republic Caucus: what FReepers are thinking, 100s or 1000s of them. It's up to you.)
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To: The_Victor

Now the question is, will the Superemes now alter their prior rulings when and if this case reaches them on appeal.


111 posted on 02/06/2016 2:42:41 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: mylife

[[WTF is an assault weapon?]]

a salt shaker?


112 posted on 02/06/2016 3:27:01 PM PST by Bob434
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To: sagar

“ALL “weapons” should be legalized”

I saw the video of the gun rights guy vs the libtard idiot TV guy and he made a valid point. Why should the populace be disarmed when the population are more likely the victims more than the cops?

Civilians face the the VERY SAME dangers that cops face so why should they not have guns? Damn Youtube, the stuff I learn...


113 posted on 02/06/2016 3:49:22 PM PST by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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To: Wildbill22

I wonder if the Left is so against guns because they believe they will be used against them? Now what are they doing to think gun owners might need to aim their weapons at them?


114 posted on 02/06/2016 5:11:31 PM PST by Crucial (At the heart all leftidsts sw the fear that the truth is bigger than themselves.)
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To: Wildbill22

ALLAHU FUBAR!!!!!


115 posted on 02/06/2016 6:01:07 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: xzins

That’s part of it.

Also, calling it an assault rifle means it doesn’t meet the standards of a Battle Rifle.


116 posted on 02/06/2016 6:55:22 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Boomer

Well armed, with sufficient and sufficiently compatible matériel to be able to perform the required functionality and be supportable if called up and deployed.


117 posted on 02/06/2016 7:15:24 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Boomer

Well armed, with sufficient and sufficiently compatible materiel to be able to perform the required functionality and be supportable if called up and deployed.


118 posted on 02/06/2016 7:15:48 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

At the least there needs to be a way of coordinating who gets called up, and who continues to keep the country functioning.


119 posted on 02/06/2016 7:21:10 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: max americana

They need high capacity magazines and rapid firing capabilities...for the exact same reasons that the police do.


120 posted on 02/06/2016 7:37:35 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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