Posted on 07/18/2022 6:17:38 AM PDT by Pontiac
I’m pretty sure the 1st amendment issue was pretty well covered already with the advent of 3D printer software.
but you’re correct there is no difference between this etched aluminum card and the Patent drawings the government itself publishes on the internet.
“The Thompsons and BARs were very expensive and uncommon. Most used by criminals were stolen from police or national guard armories.”
IIRC the BAR used by Clyde Barrow was one he had stolen from a police department somewhere along the way.
0% receiver!
fl8r
“A block of aluminum is a ‘ghost gun’ by those definitions.”
The ATF thinks that a piece of tubing is ‘bomb making materials’.
Yep, I think that the Sc will uphold the NFA stating that automatic firearms weren’t “in common use” at the time.
We noted that, “[l]ike most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited.” Id., at 626. “From Blackstone through the 19th-century cases, commentators and courts routinely explained that the right was not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.” Ibid. For example, we found it “fairly supported by the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of ‘dangerous and unusual weapons’ ” that the Second Amendment protects the possession and use of weapons that are “ ‘in common use at the time.’ ”
But I also think that Justice Thomas will dissent because in the Bruen case he wrote:
(3) The test that the Court set forth in Heller and applies today requires courts to assess whether modern firearms regulations are consistent with the Second Amendment’s text and historical understanding. Of course, the regulatory challenges posed by firearms today are not always the same as those that preoccupied the Founders in 1791 or the Reconstruction generation in 1868. But the Constitution can, and must, apply to circumstances beyond those the Founders specifically anticipated, even though its meaning is fixed according to the understandings of those who ratified it. See, e.g., United States v. Jones, 565 U. S. 400, 404–405. Indeed, the Court recognized in Heller at least one way in which the Second Amendment’s historically fixed meaning applies to new circumstances: Its reference to “arms” does not apply “only [to] those arms in existence in the 18th century.” 554 U. S., at 582.
However, it would make me just as happy to overturn the 1986 machine gun ban.
I’d even go as far as the ore pulled from the ground. It just depends how much effort is required to define something as a “ghost gun.”
= = =
And if you are even visualizing doing this, your brain is now a ‘ghost gun’.
On a side note, about 1/2 of the population already has ghost brains.
Easier for them to hold against the ATF for exceeding its authority on rules to violate both First and Second Amendments, without ever mentioning the Constitutionality of the NFA.
Easy way for them to avoid ruling on the NFA directly.
That would be the next level up. A total ban on sales of machine guns to the public is much more recent than 1934.
Definitely possible. There might be a lawsuit possibility there, specifically to invalidate the 1986 law.
Bump
Matt Hoover gets a
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Found Him 3 yrs ago and
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That’s what I expect. They might be willing to slap down the ATF for exceeding its authority, but I don’t see them overturning the 1934 NFA. And they might be willing to overturn the Volkmer-McClure machine gun ban.
The NFA is yet another law that is completely unconstitutional. It must be rejected by the Thomas court.
Bttt.
5.56mm
Those are both easier bites to swallow, instead of knocking down the complete NFA.
If the Volkmer-McClure ban on purchases goes, I see an accelerating takedown of he NFA, increment by increment.
And how those taxes aren’t the equivalent of a poll tax, I’ll never know.
good topic, informative but poorly written article
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