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The 4th Circuit rules that Militias cannot use Military appearing weapons.
VANNROX ^ | 6MAR17 | VANNROX

Posted on 03/05/2017 5:56:47 PM PST by vannrox

In case you were not aware of it, the 4th circuit court ruled that the 2nd amendment does not apply to military appearing weapons. Now, this is a curious ruling in that [1] it applies constitutional standards that are not present (the appearance of a firearm), [2] a ruling of 10-4 in favor of this (heavily stacked by liberal progressive -socialists), [3] affects the 2nd amendment, [4] which the liberals say does not apply to individuals but to militias.

What is not reported in the media (aside from just about everything regarding this) is that the 2nd amendment applies to both individuals and state militias. The point being that the ruling states that militias cannot have military grade weapons. Yet militias are para-military organizations.

WTF?

I see the USA as going through a transformation process.

Not only that the old political parties are being eviscerated and changed, but that the entire system needs to be overhauled and changed. Look, you have the 4th circuit court (staffed by Clinton and Obama appointees) ruling that state militias can’t use military style weapons. You have the 9th circuit court ruling that the President has no authority given to him by Congress unless non-Americans approve of his actions, and you have a bloated bureaucracy that controls everything in the lives of Americans, and they are unelected, and cannot be fired. WTF?

Things are changing, and it will get worse before it gets better.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2nd; activism; court; militia
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To: vannrox
"Military appearing weapons" is not a very precise or meaningful term.

It seems too nebulous and overly broad to qualify as a legal definition.


21 posted on 03/05/2017 6:41:02 PM PST by Vlad The Inhaler ("Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory." --Miguel de Cervantes)
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To: vannrox

Until Trump fills the 100 vacant judges positions around the country, we will continue seeing this. I know he has a ton to do but this would have been done already had I been President. (LOL).


22 posted on 03/05/2017 6:42:48 PM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: vannrox
I'm not proud


23 posted on 03/05/2017 6:42:54 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: RightGeek

This doesn’t mean that those awesome guns will be banned in every state over which the 4th circuit has jurisdiction, does it?


24 posted on 03/05/2017 6:49:29 PM PST by Mafe
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To: vannrox
you have the 4th circuit court (staffed by Clinton and Obama appointees) ruling that state militias can’t use military style weapons.

But other government gun-grabers have argued that the militia referred to, and protected, in the 2nd amendment are actually the individual state National Guard units.

So now the 4th circuit court bars the militia (National Guard?) from having scary military looking weapons but does not bar the individual citizen from owning them.

Yet it i s the individual citizen that comprises the militia.

Has any liberal ever thought through to what the final and true effect of their actions really are?

I doubt it.

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25 posted on 03/05/2017 6:53:33 PM PST by Vlad The Inhaler ("Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory." --Miguel de Cervantes)
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To: vannrox

That is not what the court said at all.

This is complete click-bait BS


26 posted on 03/05/2017 6:55:24 PM PST by Strac6 ("We sleep safe in our beds only because rough men stand ready to visit violence on the enemy.")
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To: wally_bert

Worse than that. I take fallen branches, strip the bark, sand and varnish and make them into quarter staffs, bows, etc. All of them could be considered “weapons of war”, according to the dumb nuts in black robes.

F them.


27 posted on 03/05/2017 6:57:20 PM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: Mafe

Someone better versed in the legalities may have a better take, but I believe that it is only Maryland - http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/26/4th-circuit-assult-weapons-look-like-military-weapons/


28 posted on 03/05/2017 6:57:58 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: vannrox

Does this mean my wife can have a pink full auto weapon??


29 posted on 03/05/2017 7:23:45 PM PST by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: gaijin

There’s a nice AR SBR on the Youtube that is painted like legos ...


30 posted on 03/05/2017 7:29:14 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: vannrox

31 posted on 03/05/2017 7:29:22 PM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: PLMerite
GA Precision Base Rifle

Order one of these in a 30-06, top it off with a 10x Leupold Mil-dot, Badger Ordnance angle cosine meter and a Harris bipod.

I'll have to order another one, mine fell in the lake during a boating accident...
32 posted on 03/05/2017 7:30:24 PM PST by farming pharmer (www.sterlingheightsreport.com)
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To: vannrox

They completely misread a small part of the Heller decision that says some weapons designed for the military aren’t covered, by which they were referring to things like artillery and crew fired machine guns. They extended that to mean anything that looks like the army could use it, completely turning the meaning of the 2A and Heller on it’s head.


33 posted on 03/05/2017 7:40:57 PM PST by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Da Coyote

34 posted on 03/05/2017 8:20:08 PM PST by vannrox (The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
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To: vannrox

Your blog ain’t news


35 posted on 03/05/2017 9:01:53 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: vannrox

These pedophiles, lesbians and fags on the Fourth Circus have got to go. Americans need to stand up and teach the bastards who the Bill of Rights belong to. It isn’t the sexual deviants in the U.S. Government.


36 posted on 03/05/2017 9:27:43 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. - Clint Eastwood)
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To: vannrox
This is not meant to be a dig / disrespect, but did you make this sign?

I thought the message to be very powerful. So I wanted to find where this sign is / was located.

All I found was:

In 1917, at 49, {William Tyler} Page wrote the "American's Creed," as a submission to a nationwide patriotic contest suggested by Henry Sterling Chapin, of New York, which was inspired by a fervor at the beginning of the American entry into the First World War.

http://www.ushistory.org/documents/creed.htm also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tyler_Page

The American's Creed

by William Tyler Page

I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed, a democracy in a republic, a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes.

I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies.

–Written 1917, accepted by the United States House of Representatives on April 3, 1918

37 posted on 03/06/2017 1:34:30 AM PST by Stanwood_Dave ("Testilying." Cop's don't lie, they just Testily{ing} as taught in their respected Police Academy.)
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To: vannrox

Did any of the weapons used by Washington’s men resemble the weapons used by a military ? That should be the nexus in deciding what weapons can be allowed a “militia” .


38 posted on 03/06/2017 3:53:01 AM PST by Lionheartusa1 ()-: ISIS is Islam without the lipstick :-()
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To: RightGeek

Is that what the “new Army” issues today? /s


39 posted on 03/06/2017 4:05:36 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Lionheartusa1

The first battle (Lexington/Concord) began when the British tried to seize the colonists’ weapons (including cannons) they’d stored there.


40 posted on 03/06/2017 4:10:58 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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