Judge Says Second Amendment Doesn't Protect AR-15s

Investor's Business Daily ^ | August 14, 2014 | IBD EDITORIALS

[raptor22]

Gun Control: A federal judge rules that the AR-15 and similar weapons commonly used in self-defense "fall outside Second Amendment protection as dangerous and unusual arms," and we have no right to keep or bear them.

Nobody looted the gun shop and tattoo parlor that share a storefront in a strip mall less than 10 minutes from Ferguson, Mo., where riots followed the police shooting of Michael Brown.

According to the local Riverfront Times, the owners of County Guns and Tattoo Studio arrived with friends to protect their businesses. One owner carried a rifle and pistol and wore a vest, while the other had his own rifle.

Their defensive use of firearms as rioters burned and looted other stores in the strip mall couldn't have occurred in Maryland. There, AR-15-style weapons are banned, more because of the rifles' "scary" appearance than their lethality. Maryland's Firearm Safety Act of 2013 makes their possession and open carry illegal.

[EagleUSA]

Another radical leftist judge legislating from the bench AGAIN.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Using this clown judge’s logic, we should all be carrying muskets and flintlock pistols.

[mountainlion]

AR15s protect this wacko judge though.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

**We should all be carrying muskets and flintlock pistols.***

Up until 1956, the average American citizen could buy better arms than the common soldier had through out history.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I can believe that.

[Dutch Boy]

<i>"Gun Control: A federal judge rules that the AR-15 and similar weapons commonly used in self-defense "fall outside Second Amendment protection as dangerous and unusual arms," and we have no right to keep or bear them."</i> <p> I guess I missed the part in the second amendment that excludes "dangerous and unusual" arms from being owned by the people. This judge should be disbarred.

[ripley]

The People’s Masters speak.

/s/

IMHO

[wastoute]

μολὼν λαβέ

[yarddog]

The judge is nothing more or less than a criminal. She is purposely making up law to suit her prejudices rather than interpreting the law or the Constitution.

[GeronL]

This judge must not have read the 2nd amendment

[Gay State Conservative]

Dangerous and unusual? First,I thought that the basic idea behind firearms was that they were supposed to be dangerous and that the Founding fathers understood that firearms were dangerous when the crafted the Second Amendment.Second,given that the AR-15 is widely available today,as was the musket in 1776,on cannot reasonably consider the AR-15 to be "unusual".

But then one wouldn't expect a judge appointed by a man who can't even define the word "is" to understand such a nuanced concept.

(end sarcasm)

[GeronL]

Cannons on private ships didn’t violate the Constitution at the time the 2nd amendment was written.

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[ConorMacNessa]

Of course it doesn't protect AR-15's! It protects US!!

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

[TurboZamboni]

[molson209]

Demonuts will slowly chip away at the Constitution until it’s just a piece of paper

[Paladin2]

The 2nd (like the others) is to protect the peeps, not the hardware.

[ThunderSleeps]

Then I suppose the 1st Amendment does not protect free speech over a smartphone since the founders never anticipated that kind of connectivity or that kind of ability to reach so many people so quickly.

What an idiot this judge is, and what a fine example of idiotic logic...

[Missouri gal]

So...guns have to “non-dangerous”???