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To: Graybeard58

Banning semis is banning everything except revolvers?

When will this fail Constitutional muster?


2 posted on 07/30/2005 7:33:27 AM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: bill1952

you make the call...

I don't think that Mayor Coleman knows the pile of dogcrap he has stepped into....yes this is all posturing in an attempted to be the next Ohio Governor, but he isn't going to be....

http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_1363.shtml


5 posted on 07/30/2005 7:36:54 AM PDT by MikefromOhio (Proud member of Planet ManRam)
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To: bill1952

The thing to do is keep careful track of who voted for what but otherwise ignore any bans these a...holes legislate and keep your powder dry.


11 posted on 07/30/2005 8:03:34 AM PDT by kimosabe31
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To: bill1952

The Constitution means whatever five Sup Court justices say it means at any particular time. Jefferson warned against allowing the Sup Court such power, but it has come to pass, and the inferior branches are not going to do anything about it, so we might as well get used to it.

It seems that someday there must be a definitive case about the Second Amendment; i.e. does it protect an individual right, or a worthless collective one?

As the Court stands now, I would be wary of the result, as it would take getting both O'Connor and Kennedy to step back from the dark side. If Bush hasn't picked a Souter in Roberts, then it comes down to Kennedy.

But then again, I haven't heard of any such a case making its way through the lower courts, so who knows when it will happen.


22 posted on 07/30/2005 9:13:53 AM PDT by Aetius
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To: bill1952
Banning semis is banning everything except revolvers?

Unless the ban only covered handguns, and I think if anything it only covered long arms, that would still leave bolt actions, slide (pump) actions, lever actions, and break actions. Even if it covered only handguns that would also leave break actions such as the Thompson-Contender series, which BTW, are usually chambered in *rifle* calibers. :)

34 posted on 07/30/2005 11:26:54 AM PDT by El Gato
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To: bill1952

They can't take away what they don't know about....building rifles, etc. is theraputic...


35 posted on 07/30/2005 11:29:14 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: bill1952

Actually revolvers are semi-automatics if they are double
action.....
one pull of the trigger for each round fired.

Think about it!
Think where this could lead...


36 posted on 07/30/2005 11:31:41 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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