California Cities Are Free to Regulate Gun Stores Out of Existence

Reason ^ | May 15, 2018 | Declan McCullagh

[Zakeet]

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sent a clear message to millions of gun owners in California: You're living in a Second Amendment-free zone.

In an order on Monday, without explanation or comment, the Court rejected a civil rights lawsuit brought by the Calguns Foundation and the Second Amendment Foundation. Those groups had hoped the justices would rule that the Second Amendment continues to apply even in the progressive enclaves of the left coast—and that law-abiding California residents possess the right to buy and sell firearms.

Instead, the Supreme Court declined to hear the case, a decision that underscores its willingness to let California legislators and judges evade the Second Amendment within the borders of the state.

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Their lawsuit challenges a decision by Alameda, a California county that includes Oakland and other east bay cities, to enact a zoning law so onerous it effectively bans gun stores. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit sided with Alameda in 2017, saying that "no historical authority suggests that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to sell a firearm."

[CottonBall]

Good question. On my phone it was the only thing available on the keypad. I don’t know exactly what it was.

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I’m on the tablet now, seems to work the same way.

[proud American in Canada]

The Korean shopkeepers knew what they were doing during the Rodney King riots.

[proud American in Canada]

I am so confused! LOL!

Add to that FReeping while on a tablet with voice-to-text text makes it even more complicated.

OMG..v2t just made the word FReeping into “free peeing.” Nice invention, but I need to figure out how to add words that are unusual. :-)

[imardmd1]

>> Cool, I had no idea it was so easy! And it looks very professional :-) good job.<<

Adding a horizontal line is confusing.
And < hr > without the spaces is actually a HTML tag.
H(yper)T(ext)M(arkup)L(anguage) is your friend.
HTML is confusing only if you refuse to take a moment and learn what it is.
The simplest basics of the level used on Free Republic are described here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/help.htm#html (click here)

Please, please click the above and read at least the first paragraph.
You can make your use of Free Republic much easier by experimenting with and then using the simplest HTML tags.

[CottonBall]

“HTML is confusing only if you refuse to take a moment and learn what it is.”

I know exactly what it is. There’s no need to be condescending about it. I’m a software engineer, and HTML is quite simple. Check my posts, I have posted lots of pictures and links, when relevant.

But I see no need to use HTML on every post when all I wanna do is quote someone. I do most of my posting from my phone, and it is more time-consuming to use HTML on a phone or tablet than it is on a real keyboard. Due to my repetitive stress injuries, I dictate and the least actual finger use I have to do the better off I am. On my main computer I have the HTML commands programmed into Dragon. But I am rarely on my main computer.

So you really don’t know all the reasons why someone may not be using HTML. You just want to assume that we are lazy or stupid.

Wrong on both counts.

[mlo]

"Perhaps it’s better to postpone that ruling until we have a few more Trump Justices on the Court."

It may be that's what the court is doing.

[imardmd1]

Well, happy for you. Some of he readers are a little confused. Setting off a quotation with carets does not trigger off the need to use HTML to terminate a paragraph and introduce a new one with the Enter key.

Sorry for your ego sensitivity. No condescension intended. Others are also reading.

[proud American in Canada]

Now that would be quite interesting.

I’ll do some research.