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Posted on 12/18/2018 9:55:39 AM PST by Gamecock
NEW YORK (AP) — A 1974 New York state ban on nunchucks that was put into place over fears that youth inspired by martial arts movies would create widespread mayhem is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, a federal court has ruled.
Judge Pamela Chen issued her ruling Friday in a Brooklyn federal court on the martial arts weapon made famous by Bruce Lee.
The plaintiff, James Maloney, started his legal quest after being charged with possession of nunchucks in his home in 2000. He initially filed a complaint in 2003, and appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court when the case went against him. The Supreme Court in 2010 remanded the case back down to be reconsidered in light of a Second Amendment decision it had made in another case, and Maloney filed an amended complaint later that year.
Maloney had been focused on getting the part of the law overturned that banned nunchucks, two rigid rods connected at one end by a chain or rope, even in private homes.
In her ruling, Chen said the court couldn’t simply take that part out, and ruled that the state’s law as it pertained to possessing nunchuks as well as to manufacturing, transporting or disposing of them was in violation of the Second Amendment.
The ruling went over the history of the ban, and said it “arose out of a concern that, as a result of the rising popularity ‘of ‘Kung Fu’ movies and shows,′ ‘various circles of the state’s youth’ — including ‘muggers and street gangs’ — were ‘widely’ using nunchaku to cause ‘many serious injuries.’”
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People who play with nunchucks are more likely to hurt themselves than anybody else!..................
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Lol! Good 4 U, my friend.
I always used them while playing Jarts.
Right. If it protects nunchuks, it most certainly protects all types of firearms, and accessories for them.
Including "bump stocks".
Got that, Donald?
Now there’s an important issue!
How many chucks could a nunchuk chuck if a nonchuk could chuck chucks?
This is essentially 2 sticks and a rope/chain.
Outlawing sticks and ropes is almost as ludicrous as outlawing a plant
Signed, Epstein’s mother.
Is that where “ numb Skull” comes from?
Cause they will give you one if you wack your noggin with one.
Plants kill!
I am going to go and make a set of nunchucks
out of two bump stocks.
That should tie our entire Federal court system in knots for the next thirteen years.
True story.
When I was living at home I had to borrow my brother’s car to go to work (mine had popped a timing chain). While I was at work inside a store it snowed.
I came out after my shift to go home and went to clear the snow from his car. I found he did not have a snow brush in the car.
Did not have an ice scraper.
Did not have a flashlight.
Did not have a set of jumper cables.
Did not have tools of any kind.
But....he DID have a set of nunchucks under the seat.
I went home and told my dad, who chewed-out my brother, calling him a NUNSKULL!
I don't see a ban on upChucks coming. NY couldn't be that fortunate as to be legally un-Schumered..
Hands and rocks kill too.
Let’s ban everything longer than a pen and harder than a feather unless you can prove that you “need” it. For the children, of course...
You could kill someone with a child..soooo
“Lol! Good 4 U, my friend.”
Good memory! (and I’d have bought a 55 gallon drum of the stuff if they could guarantee a girl would so much as returned a “Hello”.
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