Posted on 06/26/2008 9:14:08 AM PDT by NewJerseyJoe
Fenty’s as full of crap as a Christmas goose. But it sure didn’t take long for the legal equivocators to start squirming, did it?
The more I read of this Heller opinion, the more it looks to be a reaffirmation of the righteousness of the KKK’s ascension in the period from Reconstruction to the 1950’s.
This IS NOT a victory for the RKBA crowd.
Your court rulings don’t apply to us! We’re the American left!
Not unless it has a gas driven system that re-cocks the hammer.
“He’s just picking for a fight.....”
Sounds more like he is drunk with power and feels he is above the SCOTUS.
Semi-AUTOMATIC STUPIDITY!..............
Actually, in DC "machinegun" is defined by capacity, not cyclic rate per trigger pull. Most semi-autos can hold 12 or more rounds, thus are "machineguns" in DC, and thus are banned as such, and today's ruling supports such a ban (at least thru convoluted logic & definitions).
Fenty may be pulling the classic "the court has made their ruling, now let them enforce it".
When Fenty made his comment, he specifically said HANDgun...
But you need to manually cycle a new round with a revolver, the gas, recoil or inertia do not load a new round into the chamber.
Anyone know if that horse-faced c##t of a police chief of theirs made any statements on this yet?
I would suggest that Mayor Shinehead not get cute with the US Supreme Court's landmark decision on DC's citizens' newly-affirmed Constitutional right to keep and bear arms lest he find his ass-of-color hit with a Civil Rights lawsuit, which would be a delicious irony.
Unless Mayor Fenty would like another US Supreme Court decision ruling that BATFE's invented legal interpretation about FFL holders having a right to do 'kitchen table' business and DC citizens having a specific right to semi-automatic weapons that would moot future 'Assault Weapons' bans nationwide, he should shut up and not inflict more punishment upon himself.
However, I am in favor of him pressing the issue just so he loses exactly what he's asking for and doing RKBA people nationwide a tremendous service.
The emphasis on "the home" was due to the fact that plaintiff Heller wanted just that, the recognized right to keep a handgun in his home. The DC ban prohibited that. DC contended that plaintiff Heller *could* keep a rifle, or shotgun in his home, but due to other DC regulations they would have to be kept essentially unusable in the event of a sudden emergency.
These were the only questions before the Supreme Court in the Heller case, and the only ones they could truly, lawfully decide on. This is why Heller is worded the way it is.
As to licensing, Justice Scalia fired a definite shot across the bows of the remaining "mother may I" jurisdictions, when he sated that plaintiff Heller qualified for a license (he specifically excoriated "arbitrary and capricious", such as NYC, and other places, including my own state of Maryland). Justice Scalia obviously leans towards "shall-issue", and has given the gun-rights community a powerful lever to pry arbitrary and capricious prohibitions nationwide apart...
the infowarrior
An auto-rechambering pistol is called an AUTOMATIC. A pistol that fires repeatedly with one pull of the trigger is called a MACHINE PISTOL. There is no such thing as a “semi automatic” pistol.
My guess is that the mayor does not know what a semi automatic gun is.
It was cute when Andrew Jackson said it, but if I were the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court and Fenty started getting cute with 'semi-automatics' and not permitting FFL's to do business in DC, thereby keeping a de facto ban in place, I'd send US Federal Marshals down to his office and bring him before the Court on contempt charges.
Mayor Fenty really thinks he's going to pull a 'George Wallace in the schoolhouse door' moment, does he? Last time someone did that, we sent paratroopers.
Today’s ruling only means that DC will be just like NJ and NYC in that they don’t have outright bans, but in order to apply for the privilege to own one for protection, you have to be pretty damn special. In other words, 98.4% of the “common folk” won’t be able to obtain them.
I love the applauding and cheering crowd! My kind of peeps!
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