Posted on 10/25/2020 4:41:58 AM PDT by marktwain
Early 20th Century police batons in Edingburg Police Centre Museum by Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
One of the very few Second Amendment cases heard by the Supreme Court in the last decade was Caetano v. Massachusettes, decided March 21, 2016.
The Court has held that “the Second Amendment ex-tends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding,” District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U. S. 570, 582 (2008), and that this “Second Amendment right is fully applicable to the States,” McDonald v. Chicago, 561 U. S. 742, 750 (2010). In this case, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts upheld a Massachusetts law prohibiting the possession of stun guns after examining “whether a stun gun is the type of weapon contemplated by Congress in 1789 as being protected by the Second Amendment.” 470 Mass. 774, 777, 26 N. E. 3d 688, 691 (2015).
The Supreme Court of the United States, in a unanimous decision, reversed the Massachusetts Supreme Court, and held that all bearable arms were protected by the Second Amendment, with rare exceptions.
Bearable arms which are in common use for lawful purposes may not be banned, under the Second Amendment. Some enterprising Second Amendment supporters sued the Attorney General of California because the state of California bans blackjacks, billy clubs, and batons for nearly everyone in all circumstances.
Given the Supreme Court decisions of Heller, McDonald, and Caetano, it is hard to see how California AG Becerra can expect to prevail in Fouts v. Becerra (3:19-cv-01662), filed on 1 September 2019. From sandiegouniontribune.com:
Fouts was licensed in Oregon to carry a baton in his role as a private security contractor. Additionally,
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The case is coming up before Judge Roger T. Benitez of the Ninth Circuit.
Yeh...shoot’em in the leg...
We are both VERY STRONG 2ND AMENDMENT SUPPORTERS, I CCW.
A baton is basically a stick, right? They are banning sticks?
If it is "designed" as a weapon.
It is a "gotcha" law.
Enforced when wanted against who the people in power want to.
The Second Amendment clearly states “the right to keep and bear arms”. It places no restrictions on the type of arms. A literal reading would include any type of arms, up to and including nuclear weapons. In the first 100 years or so of this country, civilians owned some of the most powerful weapons available. (Artillery, Gatling guns, explosives etc.) ALL laws that restrict (infringe on) the ownership or possession of arms of any type are un-Constitutional!
I might be tempted to add anti-Christ and anti-God. Our Constitution particularly the Bill of Rights is based on individual rights obtained from our Creator not Government or man.
For example, if I can afford an A-10, or an F-22, or a Ma Deuce times ten, should laws deny that opportunity? I would think my Government should have at least as much trust in me as I have for them.
Come to think of it maybe that’s why they are so against a well armed citizenry.
I’m in Trouble.......My grandfather’s legacy included saps, billy clubs and black jacks.
What is needed in America is the right to subdue resisting criminals with a tap on the head with a good old fashioned lead sap
Defense lawyers have destroyed America by getting them prohibited
Even more ignorant is WI law. I can shoot an assailant, stab an assailant, do all kinds of things if Im being attacked but better not be caught with a bludgeoning instrument. What kind of stupid law is that?
Those “Clubs” look like tire thumpers sold at truck stops all across the USA.
Walmart sells a nice flashlight that looks just like a tire thumper. Bright light in one end, button in the other end.
The old gold “slugs” carried by early California miners in leather pouches is where the term “to Slug” someone comes from. The original Blackjack.
The miner would gather his gold dust, mix it with mercury to amalgamate it, then cut a potato in half, hollow out the center, place the amalgam in the center drop it into the campfire to drive off the mercury, and then they would have a nice slug of gold left.
How about pointy sticks? Are those legal?
Keep a baseball bat, ball and glove in the car.
Just need a Glove!
Medieval maces & war hammers old school battle axes anyone ? Problem solved!
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