Posted on 07/14/2023 5:52:42 AM PDT by CFW
On June 30, 2022, just a week after the Supreme Court decided the Bruen case, Delaware Governor John Carney signed into law a ban on "assault weapons" and standard-capacity magazines, effective immediately. Apparently he didn't get the memo that a ban on firearms in common use is off the table constitutionally.
Delaware plagiarized California's 1989 findings that it was imperative to ban any gun that is not a "sports or recreational firearm." The state ignored the Delaware Bill of Rights guarantee of the right to bear arms "for the defense of self, family, home and State," and disregarded Heller's admonition that self-defense is "the central component of the right itself."
Delaware copied a definition from Connecticut that criminalizes a rifle depending on where one's fingers are placed when firing, and Maryland's long list of banned rifles, such as the Colt AR-15. Curiously, that list excludes AR-15 HBAR (heavy barrel) rifles, unless made by Bushmaster – any semiauto rifle made by that firm is banned.
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The court claimed that "an assault rifle bullet travels at multiple times the velocity of a handgun bullet," but there is no such thing as "an assault rifle bullet." Bullets such as the .223 caliber may be fired in any rifle of that caliber, regardless of the rifle's features. The relatively low-powered .223 is not even allowed for deer hunting in Delaware and a number of other states.
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Also, they should be required to attend a NRA gun course to learn the basics of firearms and how they work prior to be sworn in as a judge in any capacity. Delaware's ban will eventually be struck down but how many will have their basic rights violated in the meanwhile? Politicians should be held personally liable for violating such obvious and clear-cut rights of the citizens.
On tyrants ban guns or means of self defense...they should be tarred and feathered upon usurping their “powers”.
Gun ban? Delaware?
Are they not aware that they have a very famous resident/visitor that ignores gun laws?
Just sayin’ . . .
Delaware. The Anti-Bill of Rights State.
When you are in the ruling class, they are not enforced.
“Delaware DOJ targets victim of ammo theft, while cutting the perp a break”
“A 39-year-old felon in Delaware who admitted to stealing more than a half-million rounds of ammunition over the course of a year and selling the pilfered rounds to gang members in Philadelphia and Dover will likely avoid prison time thanks to a sweetheart deal offered by the state, but the retailer who was the victim of the shoplifter is now in the legal crosshairs of the Delaware Department of Justice.”
There are even handguns in that caliber. Stupid people.
” not a “sports or recreational firearm.””
Since when is target shooting and tyrant hunting not recreational?
Good thing that my .444 shoots a slow bullet.
How difficult is it to obtain the ammo?
A politician tracking with the rights of citizens who would have guessed that this would have happened!
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