[neverdem]

http://www.ssd-weapon.com/engl_web/produkte_en/bd44_en/bd44_en.htm

Komrad Kalashnikov doesn't look so original. The AK-47 looks like a complete ripoff, IMHO.

The source has more stories about Heller being problematic.

[guitarplayer1953]

Why or when did the 2nd amendment get limited to the right to own a gun for just hunting? On could say that all handguns are not for hunting and ban all of them. This is ridiculous.

[SpaceBar]

The weeds of tyranny encroaching on the vacant lot of liberty.

[neverdem]

Wow (McCain camp hits hard on Ayers)

The Idiocy of Energy Independence

The Triumph of Putinism - Understanding the Russian-Georgian conflict

Harrold school district's gun policy violates law, group says Five authors wrote the story besides AP's contribution. Can this story be posted?

From time to time, I’ll ping on noteworthy articles about politics, foreign and military affairs. FReepmail me if you want on or off my list.

[Goldsborough]

"The plaintiff, proceeding pro se. . . ."

"The plaintiff, a cheap, egomaniacal moron. . . ."

I just love guys who butcher a case that buggers the rest of the firearms owners in a circuit. Those decisions go on to be cited in other circuits.

The BATFE needs to be attacked by professionals, not the legal equivalent of clowns.

[FreedomCalls]

They went on to restate the Heller Decision language that the Second Amendment wasn't unlimited

That one line is all that the courts will ever use from Heller.

"[l]ike most rights, the Second Amendment is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose."

That's the only part the courts will focus on. Nothing else said in it will matter. They will keep chipping away at which weapons and and for what purpose thay are permitted. Mark my word.

[LRS]

The lower court agreed with the BATFE's findings that the firearms Mr. Mullenix wanted to import were not "generally recognized as particularly suitable for or readily adaptable to sporting purposes."

Uh, since the Olympics themselves have shooting competitions that don't involve killing something, isn't shooting itself a sport?

[Happy Rain]

Call them what they are: BAT FEces.

[Chinstrap61a]

Dang BATFE; looks like a really good quality version of the MP-44 and I'd like to have owned one.

The only down side is that it would be a semiauto and the ammo is really expensive when you can find it...

[mylife]

The lower court agreed with the BATFE's findings that the firearms Mr. Mullenix wanted to import were not "generally recognized as particularly suitable for or readily adaptable to sporting purposes."

The 2nd isnt about "sport"

[Weya]

Has everyone read the book “Unintended Consequences”?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1888118040/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link

For those that haven’t, it’s part history and part fiction. In it, members of the “gun culture” start taking out BATF members and activist judges, then posting in the classifieds ads pointing out how easy it was, and that BATF members should quit their jobs or suffer the same fate.

They left in droves, and eventually, things started to get better.

Now I would NEVER advocate someone break the law, but wouldn’t it be interesting if the revolution was fought guerilla style like that?

[Atlas Sneezed]

Activist local judges will always rule against liberty. Always have, always will. It doesn’t have any effect on us unless this were appealed and upheld. But you can bet that SCOTUS doesn’t take crappy pro se cases.

This would be news only if the court had ruled the other way.

[Joe Brower]

First I've heard of this.

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[stevio]

Boy these SOBs don’t give up.

[beltfed308]

They went on to restate the Heller Decision language that the Second Amendment wasn't unlimited, and that the government has the right to restrict or ban any type of firearm, stating that the right only applies to certain types of firearms. ,/i>

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[Lurker]

If you're a Canadian citizen with the necessary legal rigamarole, you can purchase one here.

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[tet68]

Man, they make a semi-auto FG42 how cool is that!

[Centurion2000]

They went on to restate the Heller Decision language that the Second Amendment wasn't unlimited, and that the government has the right to restrict or ban any type of firearm, stating that the right only applies to certain types of firearms.

Definitely grounds for appeal considering that the Heler decision even went so far as to mention that Miller may have to be revisted.

[ExSoldier]

I thought the Heller decision was pretty specific in stating that whiole certain restrictions were still viable, there could be no outright bans on a specific class of firearms. Also is this case about a previously restricted and or banned class of firearm? I think this one has a good shot at an appeal to a higher court.

[BorisTheBulletDodger]

Saying the AK is a rip-off of the StG44 is like saying a Hi-Point is a rip-off of a Glock. Sure they are similar in their outwards appearances (wood furniture, banana magazine, visible gas tube), but internally the roller-delayed blowback system of the StG44 is much more like that of the G3 or the MP5 than the gas piston set-up of a Kalashnikov.

And on another note, we should create a sport called “Foreign Assault Rifle Target Shooting” so that there COULD be a “sporting purpose” for importing foreign rifles... and so that when you fill out the ATF application you could say the purpose for importing the rifles was for F.A.R.T.S.

[Smokin' Joe]

The founders did not say anything about sporting purposes, and the 2nd Amendment makes no mention of "sporting purposes".

So where do these people think they have the Constitutional authority to limit my ownership of a firearm to what THEY consider "sporting purposes"?

Heller was a lovely first step, but it is also a textbook lesson in that any time the purpose of words can be bent in order to conform to a totalitarian agenda, it will be.

The predilection toward seeing the Bill of Rights as a series of Amendments empowering the Federal Government to limit the Rights of the States and the People--instead of rightfully limiting the power of the Federal Government, not only flies in the face of original intent, but underscores the willingness of our public "servants" to do whatever they are not specifically prohibited, and to ignore completely the phrase "...shall not be infringed".

Had those Amendments not been added to limit the Federal Government and protect the rights of the people and the States, the Constitution would not have been adopted.

No law is sacrosanct, not even the Consitiution, and those who would support poorly crafted or worded legislation of any type should take note. In the absence of specific safeguards against it, and sometimes in spite of those safeguards, those usurping power will only usurp more.