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Judge Upholds Connecticut Ban on Semi-Automatic Firearms
AmmoLand ^ | August 18, 2023 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 08/26/2023 4:58:47 AM PDT by marktwain

On August 3, 2023, Judge Janet Bond Arterton of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut ruled on whether the recent Connecticut law banning the possession of common semi-automatic rifles and pistols under the appellation of “assault weapons” and of standard capacity magazines which hold more than ten rounds.

Judge Arterton ruled the law is not prohibited by the Second Amendment. She does not see it as an infringement because, she claims, “assault weapons” and magazines over ten rounds are not arms protected by the Second Amendment. Magazines that hold more than ten rounds are referred to as large capacity magazines or “LCM”s by the court.  From NAGR v. Lamont:

For the reasons discussed below, the Court denies Plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction because they have failed to meet their burden to demonstrate a likelihood of success on their claim that the challenged statutes unconstitutionally burden their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Plaintiffs’ proposed ownership of assault weapons and LCMs is not protected by the Second Amendment because they have not demonstrated that the specific assault weapons and LCMs in the Challenged Statutes are commonly sought out, purchased, and used for self-defense. Although this failure alone would have been fatal to Plaintiffs’ claim, Defendants have submitted persuasive evidence that assault weapons and LCMs are more often sought out for their militaristic characteristics than for self-defense, that these characteristics make the weapons disproportionately dangerous to the public based on their increased capacity for lethality, and that assault weapons and LCMs are more often used in crimes and mass shootings than in self-defense.


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To: marktwain

All the Marxist Dems need is control of firearms to turn the USA into Cuba. Without gun control they will not succeed.


41 posted on 08/26/2023 7:35:07 AM PDT by chopperk ( )
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To: marktwain

Think about all the terrible unconstitutional and tyrannical rulings that bitch as made.


42 posted on 08/26/2023 7:36:38 AM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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To: marktwain
Last neo-Marxist gasp?

Judge Janet Bond Arterton is almost 80 years old and will officially retire in six weeks, on October 15.

She was confirmed in 1995 by a voice vote, which means no Republican Senator thought it was important enough to be on the record voting against her.


43 posted on 08/26/2023 7:43:32 AM PDT by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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To: marktwain

Another woman in a position of authority, screwing up America.


44 posted on 08/26/2023 8:04:29 AM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: zeestephen
She is probably an old-school Progressive. Progressives took firm control of the federal government with FDR. The Courts had been a Progressive bastion from 1939 to at least 1990. Progressives believe the Constitution is outdated and needs to be neutered or a way found to "work around" it.

Judge Janet Bond Arterton's decision is a classic "work around".

Progressives believe all power should be in the hands of the government.

They actually believed in "science" as long as the scientists were committed Progressives.

45 posted on 08/26/2023 8:05:59 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: DeplorablePaul
She skipped over the “shall not be infringed” part of the 2A.

Her reasoning is incoherent.


46 posted on 08/26/2023 8:09:25 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: marktwain
Rapin Bill stooge Janet Arterton several weeks ago:

Federal judge stooge bizarrely contends that most firearms can be banned without violating the Second Amendment
Bearing Arms ^ | 8/3/23 | Cam Edwards
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4172844/posts

47 posted on 08/26/2023 8:16:05 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: marktwain

Re: They [Progressives] actually believed in “science,” as long as the scientists were committed Progressives.

LOL - thank you for a very clever sentence.


48 posted on 08/26/2023 8:17:52 AM PDT by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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To: marktwain

She’ll be overturned as well all the other radical leftist judges who try this crap.


49 posted on 08/26/2023 8:24:20 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: marktwain

She’ll get overturned.


50 posted on 08/26/2023 8:41:03 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: marktwain
"...she claims, “assault weapons” and magazines over ten rounds are not arms protected by the Second Amendment."

More proof that:
The only good communist is a dead communist...
It is our duty as citizens to help everyone be as good as possible...

51 posted on 08/26/2023 8:58:43 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: piytar

💯100%💯


52 posted on 08/26/2023 9:26:06 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: marktwain

She looks like a lot of fun.


53 posted on 08/26/2023 9:27:08 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: joma89

I’ll do what the left does… I’ll ignore the judge.

The constitution trumps anything one of these assholes “decrees”.


54 posted on 08/26/2023 9:57:30 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: marktwain

I’d laugh if someone was breaking into her home some night and when she dialed 911 the message was “All lines are busy now. Wait time is approximately 20 minutes”.


55 posted on 08/26/2023 10:07:50 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: piytar

SCOTUS has already ruled that common use weapons cannot be banned — by anyone or anything.

This is virtue signaling by an old dried up hag of a bitter TWOT.


56 posted on 08/26/2023 10:28:03 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: marktwain

Communist


57 posted on 08/26/2023 10:51:37 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: Lurker

What I would like to see is any lower judge that has a decided case accepted for appeal to a higher court be subpoenaed to appear before that higher court to argue why verbally that their decisions in a given case should not be overturned.(That in addition to plaintif in the case)


58 posted on 08/26/2023 11:05:15 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (A horrible historic indictment: Biden Democrats plunging the world into war to hide their crimes!)
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To: antidemoncrat

Her legal decisions helped turn the New Haven central “Green” (=park) into a drug infested wasteland.

That is what the left calls “greatness”.

Lol.


59 posted on 08/26/2023 11:12:22 AM PDT by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: PROCON

Disabled Vet Killed After FBI Raid on Tennessee Home

According to an interview with Deschler’s brother and mother, the FBI has been refusing to tell them why the raid was carried out.

“There’s three up front and two on the sides they broke out…they were shooting flash…smoke grenades,” Russell Deschler, the brother of the deceased, said.

“It was a senseless act. You know Teddy was a 100 percent disabled veteran. He had problems. He had severe PTSD. He had depression but he was getting help for it but this was senseless. He didn’t have a weapon on him. He was just trying to get out of the house because it was filled with tear gas,” the brother said.

https://truthpress.com/news/disabled-vet-killed-after-fbi-raid-on-tennessee-home/


60 posted on 08/26/2023 12:32:14 PM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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