Posted on 02/22/2017 10:57:48 AM PST by nickcarraway
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, Virginia, said the guns banned under Maryland's law aren't protected by the Second Amendment.
"Put simply, we have no power to extend Second Amendment protections to weapons of war," Judge Robert King wrote for the court, adding that the Supreme Court's decision in District of Columbia v. Heller explicitly excluded such coverage.
10 round limit. That’s like a limit on how many squares of toilet paper you are allowed to use.
...Is it actually possible to buy an “Assault Weapon”? A full-auto M-4, AK, etc? Really....
Yes, in many states it is. Visit a Class 3 FFL licensee, go through an extensive background check. Get approval from the local law enforcement head, pay a federal transfer fee, and bring LOTS of cash.
IIRC, there have only been 2 crimes committed with legally purchased select fire weapons since the 30’s, and both of those were committed by police officers, one with a department owned gun.
War is the major point of the 2nd amendment. Only a “supposed” judge could fail to see that.
I would cheer if they were taken out by an assault baseball bat.Just to make it more painful.
1. Stupidity = the inability to learn.
2. Ignorance = not having learned but having the ability to do so.
3. Just pure evil wanting to destroy the nation and it’s people.
So which one of these describes so many of our judges?
I vote for number 3.
We DO NOT want to go down the Militia road, which would allow courts to define the Organized Militia as the national Guard, etc.
This is not really that big a decision, since the courts already have already given the Executive Branch the ability to regulate other types of weapons, such as fully automatic, over a certain caliber, etc.
The really foolish part was the judge calling a affected weapons “weapons of war.” The decision is certainly attackable on that element alone.
The Bow and arrow have been “Weapons of war” a lot longer than the Semi-Auto rifle.
What this just has done is open the door for the Government to declare ANYTHING a “weapon of war” and regulate or outright ban it.
How can a court Constitutionally declare any of these firearms as “Weapons of war” when that term has not been clearly defined? It’s an opinion and open to interpretation. That definition would need to come from Congress for him to rule on whether on not those firearms fall within that scope.
This judge has not only unconstitutionally ruled on the legality of the arms, he’s arbitrarily created a litmus test for the 2nd amendment that no one outside his own head can quantify.
He should be disbarred and removed from the bench.
This presupposes that we citizens have access to the same weapons as those govt agents will be using if, and when, they turn on us. That's common sense, something that has been lacking in our federal judiciary for some time.
Then why are the 'armed forces' equipped with them? The 2A makes no distinction between a militia and a standing army.
Glad you posted that. Also the Gun Trust method.
I want my old XM177E2 back
“Weapons of war”. What does such drivel mean? Any weapon can be a weapon of war.
Absolute nonsense.
Someone please buy these poor bastards a copy of the U. S. Constitution.
It was TEN judges, not one. Most of them, I believe, are Obama appointees. Big surprise there.
Yes, it’s possible, as long as you pay the high price, high tax, and do all the paperwork...
There’s a new SCOTUS a comin...
Any “so called judge” that claims Americans have no right to “weapons of war” has no business in the country, much less on the bench.
The second amendment is about weapons of war, idiots
<<< This judge needs to be removed from the bench immediately >>>
It was a 10-4 decision. All 10 need to be removed.
Not sure if Gorsuch is aRIno
I expect to see the VA gov and AG get something on the works to take advantage. .
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