SCOTUS needs to finally rule on this "assault" rifle and "large capacity" magazine ban, there are many other states that have similar unconstitutional bans.
Posted on 05/17/2026 11:35:50 AM PDT by PROCON
The Commonwealth’s Attorney for Spotsylvania County, Va., said he would not enforce new bans on modern semiautomatic weapons signed by Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger.
Pro-Second Amendment organizations sued to have the bans struck down as unconstitutional minutes after Spanberger signed the relevant bills into law Thursday evening. Commonwealth’s Attorney G. Ryan Mehaffey wrote a letter Friday to Spotsylvania County Sheriff Roger L. Harris, citing Supreme Court decisions as the basis of his belief that the law couldn’t be “lawfully enforced.”
“The Assault Weapons Ban (SB 749/HB 217) and the Public Carry Ban (SB 727/HB 1524) are undoubtedly inconsistent with the historical tradition of Virginia, as articulated by Miller [v. United States], and are thus unconstitutional under Bruen,” Mehaffey wrote.
“Moreover, Heller secures the right of Virginians to keep and bear the most popular rifle in America, the AR-15,” Mehaffey continued.
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SCOTUS needs to finally rule on this "assault" rifle and "large capacity" magazine ban, there are many other states that have similar unconstitutional bans.
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Well cool.
SCOTUS needs to finally read the Second Amendment and eliminate gun control in every state.
You make Abigail cry!
Defying the ban on semi-automatic weapons? What’s next? Bringing back slavery??? (/sarc)
“SCOTUS needs to finally read the Second Amendment and eliminate gun control in every state.”
They can’t because most of them really don’t believe the peasants should be armed unless it’s for cannon fodder.
(And, does she somehow remind anyone of the Disney Character, Cruella de Vil?)
Think a blonde Margaret Hamilton Wicked Witch in Oz. Has the nose for it!
Is that where Boris Badenov was from??
A reply using more than words....
“I hope I shall never again be sent to Algiers with tribute, unless I am authorized to deliver it from the mouth of our cannon.”
——Captain Bainbridge in Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates By Brian Kilmeade .
:)
Great news....
A county Sheriff in Michigan very publicly defied Gretchen Whitmer and her blatantly unconstitutional dictates during the coved scam.
He told me that Whitmer instructed her people to leave his county alone. She was scared of him. As it should be. Maybe Spamberger will be scared too.
‘Odd’. My copy of the Constitution, & 2nd A. specifically, fails to mention ‘common’ or ‘popular(ity)’ of ANY arm.
Perhaps SCOTUS can point to that ‘missing’ adjective.
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