Posted on 02/22/2017 6:47:08 AM PST by PROCON
ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Maryland's ban on 45 kinds of assault weapons and its 10-round limit on gun magazines were upheld Tuesday by a federal appeals court in a decision that met with a strongly worded dissent.
In a 10-4 ruling, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., said the guns banned under Maryland's law aren't protected by the Second Amendment.
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Should be appealed to the Supreme Court where I would hope for a more favorable result by the time the case is heard. John Browning’s Hi Power, with a magazine capacity of 13, went into production in 1935 and has been widely used in Europe since then. This model was imported into the U.S. and has been around for decades. Why is capacity greater than 10 suddenly illegal? To me this is simply a first step in outright gun control and an attack on personal freedoms.
Weapons of war?
My goodness, my pitchfork was considered a weapon of war in the middle ages in Europe. Sometimes the Peasant levies only had farm implements to use when called up by their lords and masters.
All citizens have the exact right to posses and use any weapon currently used by law enforcement, including machine guns.
Neither side should have an advantage in weaponry power.
If a SWAT team comes barging into a private residence, the home owner shall have the same fire power to repel the invading force. It is as simple as that.
There may come a time when the private citizen will be needed to defend the homeland against a foreign or domestic entity. This is the MAIN reason we have the 2nd amendment enshrined in our constitution.
What kind of weapons do they think the well regulated militia is supposed to use? Spit balls???
The most ironic part of that statement is that the Second Amendment was intended precisely to protect ownership of the weapons of war required by an infantryman.
What if it's deliberate ignorance? Meaning, if they deliberately rule this way the only alternatives plaintiffs have is to spend more money and resources appealing. Get it?
Liberals have all but abandoned an immutable moral code and by extension, the rule of law. I am convinced that they believe themselves above all else and can do whatever to achieve their preferred outcome.
Judicial willful rewriting of the Constitution.
***”...we have no power to extend Second Amendment protections to weapons of war,”***
Say what! Those who can remember back in the 1920s Dark Ages, when Springfield and Rock Island were making the 1903 bolt action rifle they also made some of the best hunting and target rifles for the public. They were told to stop as it was competing with commercial manufacturers.
Silly. We all know it was about deer hunting. LOL!
They do. They have always been that way.
Bows and arrows, spears, lances, maces, clubs, tomahawks, rocks, sticks.......................
If not, I can see a few places where they should be generously applied...
Isn’t an axe or hatchet also a “weapon of war”? It looks like SCOTUS is going to have to set these JV buffoons straight.
Okay, so, how do we get impeachment proceedings started?
Does it require deep pockets? A senator with courage?
Isn’t an axe or hatchet also a “weapon of war”? It looks like SCOTUS is going to have to set these JV buffoons straight.
Yep. All the above and more.
Arms, legs, fists, hands, fingers, teeth..................
the AR15 is cousin to the M16 - get it kids? - these a-holes intentionally got it wrong
Yes, it's quite intentional. Back when the U.S. vs. Miller decision was rendered, the Supreme Court used "militia weapons" as a legal standard, to determine whether 2A protection extended to other firearms as well. Federal judges have carefully avoided speaking of that in the decades since.
It suspiciously ignores the M9, a weapon of war which used to be built by Beretta in Maryland. The civilian version is readily available in Maryland gun shops.
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