Posted on 04/06/2018 10:16:57 AM PDT by Simon Green
Now there's some twisted propaganda wording.
It doesn't vindicate the right of the people of MA to protect themselves, it strips them of exactly that right.
[The features of a military-style rifle are “designed and intended to be particularly suitable for combat rather than sporting applications,” Young wrote.]
So, obviously he means bolt-action rifles.
Idiot judge.
I wonder how our Revolutionary War would have turned out, if the Minutemen had only been able to use sling-shots?
Muzzle loader rifles, blunderbusses, ball and cap pistols are fine.
Impeach this beast.
We sort of HAVE those guns for that day they “uphold bans”.
If you have to ask permission to own it, it isn’t a right anymore.
And if you’re not willing to fight to defend it... well, there it is.
When the 2nd Amendment was enacted, military style rifles is exactly what most people at the time had.
We need feral-judge control.
A Reagan appointee. How is it that it is always an exception that Republican judicial appointees almost always are liars to get appointed? I know of almost no case where a judge appointed by a Democrat consistently strayed from the liberal dogma.
Since when does the 2nd Amendment only to sporting guns? Where does is say, or even remotely suggest that?
I have a very uneasy feeling right now following the Deerfield, Ill. ordinance (based upon the Highland Park ordinance) and this by the federal opinion. We are now at the point where the liberals ARE taking our guns, albeit piecemeal.
Massachusetts Constitution, Part I, Article XVII.
The people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defence. And as, in time of peace, armies are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be maintained without the consent of the legislature; and the military power shall always be held in an exact subordination to the civil authority, and be governed by it.
One word: IMPEACH the sumbitch.
(Not one word but who’s counting?)
“The features of a military-style rifle are...” Full automatic operation.
Black and intimidating shouldn’t be justification for a ban, some shotguns meet that description.
This will force the direct question to SCOTUS and bring into play the Heller decision that clearly states that common firearms in this country are in fact covered by 2A.
There are several tens of millions of legally owned AR’s in our nation.
The AR is the best selling rifle platform in the history of our nation, and has been for the last decade.
The AR platform is the most widely used firearm in the USA in organized rifle sporting competitions.
If that clearly does not define “common” as used in the Heller decision, I do not know what does.
SCOTUS will stand behind the Heller decision. They have been dodging this question because it has not come directly before them. This time it will.
You got that right, Judge.
And we call your liberal sycophantic crap, "Unlawful Judicial Malpractice" and "Judicial Tyranny", and it a totally and treasonous attempt to legislate from the Bench.
We'll be watching.
Molon Labe.
The “sporting purposes” must be a poison pill. A federal judge can’t be that stupid, can he ?/s/?
There! Fixed it.
Note that a previous generation of Constitution-respecting Supreme Court justices had condemned subjective interpretations of the Constitution.
"The Constitution was written to be understood by the voters; its words and phrases were used in their normal and ordinary, as distinguished from technical, meaning; where the intention is clear, there is no room for construction and no excuse for interpolation or addition [emphasis added].” —United States v. Sprague, 1931.
I see the words “militia” and “security” in the 2nd Amendment. I don’t see the words “sporting applications”.
Don’t forget cannons, we were able to own those too at the time of the founding.
I want to be able to carry around my own personal swivel gun...
On to SCOTUS.
Detoilet has no strong gun laws, no stronger than the rest of the state of MI.
In MI everyone has the right to open carry of firearms, no permits required.
MI is a ‘Shall Issue”, every non-felon can get a CC a handgun.
In MI over 8% of adults in the state have a CC permit. In some areas of the state more than 20% of the adults CC at all times.
In MI every adult has the right to carry as many Insult-Weapons as they can...well...carry! and they have the right to carry it everywhere they go.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.