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Supreme Court Ruling Could Legalize Assault Rifles In Every State
msn ^ | Rayna Reid Rayfor

Posted on 05/11/2023 9:12:26 AM PDT by rellimpank

As mass shootings become an almost ever-present part of the news cycle, the Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling on a case any day now which “could legalize assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in all 50 states.”

In the case in question, National Association for Gun Rights v. City of Naperville, a gun shop owner and a gun rights group have claimed that two Illinois statutes “violate the Second Amendment,” and now it’s on the shadow docket for the Supreme Court.

But what exactly is the shadow docket? In a nutshell, the high court takes cases on either the merit or shadow docket, and essentially every case you can name, i.e., Roe v. Wade, Brown v. Board of Education, was on the merit docket. While cases on the merit docket require the Court to consider briefs and hold oral arguments before the justices issue a lengthy opinion, “[c]ases on the on the shadow docket…typically do not receive extensive briefing or a hearing

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2a; 2ndamendment; armedcitizen; banglist; guns; nra; rkba; scotus; secondamendment
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To: windsorknot

Assault weapons: scary looking guns with big clips that are weapons of war.


41 posted on 05/11/2023 10:15:39 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Republican in occupied CA

Hochul, Newsome, Pritzker and other similar filth will find a workaround.


42 posted on 05/11/2023 10:23:04 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: rellimpank

Maybe blue states need to pay more attention to controlling criminals rather than guns. Ya think?


43 posted on 05/11/2023 10:27:29 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Yo-Yo
Standard capacity is a relative term.

Depends on the specific firearm. My S&W 49 standard capacity is 5 rounds. In my KelTek .22 magnum, standard capacity is 30 rounds. Both are handguns. Standard capacity for a Browning 1919 is 250.

In other words, the term is essentially meaningless. Except for political purposes.

44 posted on 05/11/2023 10:28:16 AM PDT by sjmjax
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To: HamiltonJay

Would you mind if I put you on the list as the guest lecturer at about 10 schools of journalism?


45 posted on 05/11/2023 10:35:58 AM PDT by KC Burke (Diversity, Inclusion and Equity is not another way to spell GOD but it is a way to spell DIE.)
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To: KC Burke

Sure, don’t consider myself any expert to lecture.


46 posted on 05/11/2023 10:40:52 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: rellimpank

It may make them legal in all 50 states, but that won’t stop liberal states from passing laws outlawing them anyway and forcing 2A groups to spend money to (re)legislate.


47 posted on 05/11/2023 10:41:42 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (It's science and therefore cannot be questioned!)
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To: rellimpank
Guess what already legalized them in all 50 states and territories?
48 posted on 05/11/2023 10:45:19 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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To: HamiltonJay

>> doesn’t suddenly make them legal

legal is generally an implied condition of something not being definitively illegal. I find this to be an important distinction given the permission to do something is never necessary — that is, nothing is really legal, and only certain things are illegal.


49 posted on 05/11/2023 10:53:23 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: systemjim
Why is it so difficult for liberals to understand that the right to bear arms is not at the discretion of congress or the supreme court?

Because they have gotten their way for so long and had almost legislated the 2A out of existence.

50 posted on 05/11/2023 10:53:49 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (It's science and therefore cannot be questioned!)
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To: windsorknot
I have yet to hear an anti-2A zealot definitively define “assault weapon”.

In one or two simple sentences.

And, we need to read carefully what they say, watching out for definitions to be provided later, by some sort of committee or agency.

51 posted on 05/11/2023 10:55:54 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston Churchill)
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To: JimRed

You can steal one like that chick down on Texas.


52 posted on 05/11/2023 10:56:16 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (It's science and therefore cannot be questioned!)
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To: rellimpank; All
Thank you for referencing that article rellimpank. Please note that the following critique is directed at Congress and not at you.

"Supreme Court Ruling Could Legalize Assault Rifles In Every State"


It seems that we never hear about Congress's 14th Amendment power to make laws that strengthen the rights that the states have amended the Constitution to expressly protect from abridgment by the states.

In fact, the congressional record shows that when Rep. John Bingham, the main author of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, read the Bill of Rights as main examples of constitutionally enumerated rights that the states have protected, he included the 2nd Amendment (2A).

“See 2nd Amendment (Article II) about middle of 2nd column.” — John Bingham, Appendix to the Congressional Globe

So let's not let the very corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress off the hook for not doing its job to strengthen 2A protections by primarying ALL incumbent lawmakers in 2024.

But MTG gets a pass for pushing for Biden impeachment.

“Compromised” Citing Damning Report, MTG Calls For Biden To Be Impeached (5.11.23)

53 posted on 05/11/2023 11:03:03 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Seaplaner

An assault rifle is a rifle used by the military forces during an armed assault on enemies positions. Such a weapon may be single shot or provided with magazines holsing multiple rounds

An assault rifle is also a defensive weapon when under attack by an armed enemy


54 posted on 05/11/2023 11:03:46 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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To: rellimpank

“As mass shootings become an almost ever-present part of the news cycle, the Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling on a case any day now which “could legalize assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in all 50 states.””

Assault style weapons. They are not assault weapons.


55 posted on 05/11/2023 11:07:23 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (The Democrat Party - Dumbing Down America Since 1965.)
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To: windsorknot
Anything in your hand when you go to put the hurt on another person, including your hand.

Given time, they will get around to all of it.

56 posted on 05/11/2023 11:10:27 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: bert
From Wiki... The U.S. Army defines assault rifles as "short, compact, selective-fire weapons that fire a cartridge intermediate in power between submachine gun and rifle cartridges.

This is a concise and cogent definition of an assault rifle. The left hates it because it (correctly) excludes semi-automatic-only rifles such as the M-16

57 posted on 05/11/2023 11:11:39 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston Churchill)
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Right to keep and bear arms in the United States

Worth a scan, imo.

58 posted on 05/11/2023 11:16:03 AM PDT by deport
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To: going hot
Yes, they could make the case that all firearms are “assault weapons”.
59 posted on 05/11/2023 11:22:19 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: windsorknot

In the left’s mind, they already are. Just not ready to put it out on prime time.


60 posted on 05/11/2023 11:23:41 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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