California gun rights group look to overturn state ban on assault weapons

Fox News ^ | August 16, 2019 | Bradford Betz

[rxsid]

"You said that the 2nd had nothing to do with the military and it’s weapo, and that is the part of what you said with which I disagree."

You think the 2nd Amendment DOES have something to do with the military? If you do, your literally taking the dissent view in the Heller case. Your siding with the liberals.

The "military" and a "militia" are two different things, even back then. The "military" was known as the Continental Army. Not the "militia." Does the 2nd Amendment mention the Continental Army? Or the military? It only mentions "militia." Which, again, is NOT the "military" like the liberals and anti-2nd amendment people like to argue when trying to define who has a right to bear arms.

So no, as stated, the 2nd amendment has nothing to do with the military.

[Armscor38]

“If law enforcement is “allowed” to have an AR-15 (for example), then citizens must be allowed to own an AR-15.
The 2nd Amendment is a hedge against a tyrannical government.

“Law enforcement” includes local police, local sheriff, state troopers, federal marshals, fbi, etc.

Has nothing to do with the military, who has nuclear weapons and fast attack subs. Your local law enforcement doesn’t have either of those.

Whatever law enforcement has, the citizens must be able to own.”

It wasn’t town constables that we fought in the Revolutionary War. In the War for Independence, the average citizen could be as well armed as the average British Redcoat was.

[archy]

“But civilian ownership of assault weapons is also a recent phenomenon.”

Kindly note that under Title 10 of the US Code, *Civilians* include all persons not under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Thus, all *assault weapons* and machineguns used by civilian law enforcement, from the FBI and police SWAT teams clear back to Elliot Ness and his Tommygun-toting *Untouchables* to Mr Hoover's *G-Men* were civilian possessors and users of such weapons. Which, by the way, means they're in *common use by civilian shooters* as stated by the Supreme Court.

See, for example, 10 USC Section18, relating to MILITARY SUPPORT FOR CIVILIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES.