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From a gun control activism site:
How Many Assault Weapons Do Americans Own?
The Trace
BY ALEX YABLON
September 22, 2018
"The answer is much more than trivia. Courts assess the popularity of the weapons when deciding whether politicians can ban them...
Nonetheless, according to CNN, the AR-15 is now perhaps the most popular single model of rifle in the country. And the overall number of assault-style weapons in the United States is not just an academic matter: the constitutionality of gun bans rests on their historic popularity.
In 2008, the Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to own guns. Justice Antonin Scalia used his majority opinion to lay out a threshold for the regulation of firearms, arguing that the government cannot prohibit guns 'in common use.'"
Ping.
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.
Ever ask a lib to define an “assault weapon”? They don’t know. They believe that the letters, AR is an acronym for Assault Rifle. Perhaps they should research the actual AR15 designation starting with Eugene Stoner and Armalite Rifle.
The focus has to be shifted from guns to the psych drugs that every one of these shooters are connected to.
There is all this desperation about doing something. Well, WHY is this not being looked at?
https://www.ammoland.com/2013/04/every-mass-shooting-in-the-last-20-years-shares-psychotropic-drugs/
Tell you what... Among others, The one that also really needs to be overturned in Ca is the “Importing firearms” law. It is mass confiscation and registration of every firearm entering Ca. If allowed to stand as precedent, and be accepted as Constitutional, soon many other states will be following suit because they got away with it. .
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“But civilian ownership of assault weapons is also a recent phenomenon.”
Not really. I’d be willing to bet that the CMP has put well over 1,000,000 M1 Garands into private ownership since they became available there. It was the most effective assault weapon of its day. And in the hands of a skilled user it’s still a damned effective weapon. It’s been available to the shooting public decades longer than AR pattern rifles have been.
We simply must reject the language of the Left.
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Justice Antonin Scalia used his majority opinion to lay out a threshold for the regulation of firearms, arguing that the government cannot prohibit guns ‘in common use.’”
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And, yet, here we are, essentially barred from possessing the same ‘common’ arms used in the military?
This, along w/ his “no Right is absolute”, was the man the (R)N(C) held up as a ‘great legal mind’ & Constitutionalist???
No wonder our Republic is at Banana status
California gun rights groups? I thought they had all been shipped out to temporary work camps.
A Well Regulated Militia?
Lost in the gun rights debate, much to the detriment of American freedom, is the fact that the Second Amendment is in fact an “AMENDMENT”. No “Articles in Amendment” to the Constitution, more commonly referred to as the Bill of Rights, stand alone and each can only be properly understood with reference to what it is that each Article in Amendment amended in the body of the original Constitution. It should not be new knowledge to any American the Constitution was first submitted to Congress on September 17, 1787 WITHOUT ANY AMENDMENTS. After much debate, it was determined that the States would not adopt the Constitution as originally submitted until “further declamatory and restrictive clauses should be added” “in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its (the Constitutions) powers”. (This quote is from the Preamble to the Amendments, which was adopted along with the Amendments but is mysteriously missing from nearly all modern copies.) The first ten Amendments were not ratified and added to the Constitution until December 15, 1791.
In this Light: “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.” What provisions of the original Constitution is it that the Second Amendment is designed to “amended”? THE SECOND AMENDMENT IS AMENDING THE PROVISIONS IN THE ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION APPLYING TO THE “MILITIA”. The States were not satisfied with the powers granted to the “militia” as defined in the original Constitution and required an amendment to “prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers. “(Again quoting from the Preamble to the Amendments.)
What was it about the original Constitutional provisions concerning the “Militia” that was so offensive to the States?
First understand that the word “militia” was used with more than one meaning at the time of the penning of the Constitution. One popular definition used then was one often quoted today, that the “Militia” was every able bodied man owning a gun. As true as this definition is, it only confuses the meaning of the word “militia” as used in the original Constitution that required the Second Amendment to correct. The only definition of “Militia” that had any meaning to the States demanding Amendments is the definition used in the original Constitution. What offended the States then should offend “People” today: “Militia” in the original Constitution as amended by the Second Amendment is first found in Article 1, Section 8, clause 15, where Congress is granted the power: “To provide for the calling forth the MILITIA to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrection and repel Invasions.” Article 1, Section 8, Clause 16 further empowers Congress: “To provide for the organizing, arming, and disciplining, the MILITIA, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;” Any “patriot” out there still want to be called a member of the “MILITIA” as defined by the original Constitution? Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 empowers: “The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the MILITIA of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States;” The only way the States would accept the “MILITIA” as defined in the original Constitution was that the Federal “MILITIA” be “WELL REGULATED”.
The States realized that “THE SECURITY OF A FREE STATE” required that the “MILITIA” as originally created in the Constitution be “WELL REGULATED” by a “restrictive clause.” How did the States decide to insure that the Constitutional “MILITIA” be “WELL REGULATED”? By demanding that “restrictive clause two” better know as the “Second Amendment” be added to the original Constitution providing: “THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.” The States knew that “PEOPLE” with “ARMS” would “WELL REGULATE” the Federal “MILITIA”! Now read for the first time with the full brightness of the Light of truth: “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.” For those still overcome by propaganda: The Second Amendment declares by implication that if the “MILITIA” is not “WELL REGULATED” by “PEOPLE” keeping and bearing arms, the “MILITIA” becomes a threat to the “SECURITY OF A FREE STATE.” The “MILITIA” has no “RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS” in the Second Amendment, rather it is only “THE RIGHT OF THE “”PEOPLE”” TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS (that) SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.”
10th. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States...
14th. Privileges and Immunities.
USC Title 18 Section 242. Deprivation of Rights under color of Law. It's a Felony that can carry the death penalty.
Heller. 2A is an Individual Right.
The hell with Kalifornistan and EVERY politician who pushed "gun control". From Schumer to Crenshaw. Party matters NOTHING.
Violate the 2A and you are a FELON. And I for one will treat you as such...
5 times as many hammers are used to kill than rifles... are they assault hammers
I tried to to donate my AR-15 to the Army.
They rejected it. Said it was not an “assault weapon”.
So we can all stop using that phrase now.
They need to get rid of the ridiculous regulations about fixed magazines. The law has changed several times, and has probably caused hundreds of thousands of gun owners to become instant felons for not having their long guns smithed (2 times!) over the last several years.
First, the state said that long guns couldn’t have a detachable magazine without using a tool. So gun makers created what became known as the “bullet button”. You couldn’t use a finger to detach the magazine, but any tool shaped like the pointed edge of a bullet would release the magazine. You could literally use a bullet, but many after market devices like rings and key chain attachments were created (it was illegal to attach the release tool to the weapon itself)
Well, after a few years the state decided this was too easy. So they changed the law again to require a “fixed magazine” - basically to change out the mag you need a more complicated tool and it couldn’t be done on the fly.
For many reasons these laws should be set aside. They required every gun owner to alter their legally acquired weapons - twice - at their own expense or at their own risk. And if you are not aware of these changes and just have a long gun in the back of your closet that you haven’t touched in a decade... well, you’re a felon. It’s stupid.