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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Assault weapons: scary looking guns with big clips that are weapons of war.
Hochul, Newsome, Pritzker and other similar filth will find a workaround.
Maybe blue states need to pay more attention to controlling criminals rather than guns. Ya think?
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.
Would you mind if I put you on the list as the guest lecturer at about 10 schools of journalism?
Sure, don’t consider myself any expert to lecture.
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.
>> 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.
Because they have gotten their way for so long and had almost legislated the 2A out of existence.
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.
You can steal one like that chick down on Texas.
"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.
Excerpted from the 14th Amendment:
"Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.""Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
“3. The right of suffrage was not necessarily one of the privileges or immunities of citizenship before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, and that amendment does not add to these privileges and immunities. It simply furnished an additional guaranty for the protection of such as the citizen already had [emphasis added].” —Minor v. Happersett, 1874.
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)
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
“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.
Given time, they will get around to all of it.
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
Worth a scan, imo.
In the left’s mind, they already are. Just not ready to put it out on prime time.
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