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To: Texas Fossil

The decision misreads the Miller case, which, if construed in the narrowest possible way, said that *only* military weapons are protected by the Second Amendment.


11 posted on 02/23/2017 4:36:08 AM PST by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: coloradan
The decision misreads the Miller case, which, if construed in the narrowest possible way, said that *only* military weapons are protected by the Second Amendment.

Correct, and IIRC, the fact that Miller didn't show up to his appeal, and his attorney did him no favors, it was ruled that a sawed-off shotgun was not a military weapon, thus not protected under the 2nd Amendment. The reality of it is, sawed-off shotguns were used regularly in WWI, and had either Miller or his attorney bothered to show this, the Miller decision would have gone the other way.

44 posted on 02/23/2017 6:00:55 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees! - Kipling)
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To: coloradan

I agree, but it doesn’t matter if the decision misreads the revealed Word of God— it is these judges that have the power. If they day Marylanders can’t own an AR15 or a Glock 17, then they can’t own them. The state and the cops will back these judges to the hilt, buried in your back.


59 posted on 02/23/2017 8:05:30 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Trump won; I celebrated; I'm good. Let's get on with the civil war now.)
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