[raybbr]

Any CT FReepers please check out the Facebook page of Connecticut Citizens Defense League. They are the driving force behind the challenge to the law.

[Tzimisce]

If the government protected the right to bear arms the same way they protected the “right” to an abortion you would see:

1) Guns and gun safety taught in schools
2) Schools would hand out bullets
3) Children as young as 14 could buy guns without their parents knowledge or consent
4) No restrictions on gun sales regardless of mental illness
5) No registrations on gun sales
6) Gun store clerks would tell customers how to violate any gun laws
7) Gun control advocates wouldn’t be allowed to protest within 100’ of gun stores
8) There would be laws against the media publishing the names of gun owners.

More children (people younger than a month old) are killed by abortion than guns.

[RKBA Democrat]

Another political hack in a black muumuu insisting that the plain language of the 2nd Amendment doesn’t mean what it says.

[ZULU]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_V._Covello

This idiot was appointed by that other idiot Bush I.

[William Tell]

From the judge's decision in the linked article: "... a constitutionally valid means of balancing gun rights and the government's interest in reducing gun violence."

From the Heller decision:
We know of no other enumerated constitutional right whose core protection has been subjected to a freestanding “interest-balancing” approach. The very enumeration of the right takes out of the hands of government—even the Third Branch of Government—the power to decide on a case-by-case basis whether the right is really worth insisting upon. A constitutional guarantee subject to future judges’ assessments of its usefulness is no constitutional guarantee at all.

The judge in this case gets an "F" in Constitutional Law.

[kvanbrunt2]

“government’s interest in reducing gun violence”
No such animal exists. guns are by nature passive. and are completely devoid of human attributes. they are made of wood, metal, plastic. this is result of failing to educate. the judge is a stupid moron.

[Daffynition]

Covello:

"While the act burdens the plaintiffs' Second Amendment rights, it is substantially related to the important governmental interest of public safety and crime control."

Connecticut...the Constitution State. Meh.

"Obviously, the court cannot foretell how successful the legislation will be in preventing crime," Covello wrote. "Nevertheless, for the purposes of the court's inquiry here, Connecticut, in passing the legislation, has drawn reasonable inferences from substantial evidence."

Pass a law and we'll see what is in it.

Covello adopted the state's arguments that assault weapons are designed, not for cosmetic purposes, but for "lethality." And he referred to an affidavit by a state expert who asserted that "Connecticut's bans on assault weapons and large capacity magazines, and particularly its ban on (large capacity magazines), have the potential to prevent and limit shootings in the state over the long run."

Spin spin spin

Covello: "several provisions of the legislation are not written with the utmost clarity."

O RLY?

[Biggirl]

Take it to the USSC.

[Faith65]

Bkmk

[longtermmemmory]

so much for “strict scrutiny”, this judge ruled based on ANY interest of the government.

[2harddrive]

The “judge” has castrated the 2nd Amendment.

[TheBigJ]

Robed judicial activist tyrant just invented a pile of horse manure, ignoring Heller decision, writing up nonsense that doesn’t deserve anything but ignoring.

[mom.mom]

“In defending the ban, Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen argued that handguns and rifles on the state’s list of banned assault weapons were designed for killing people and should not be generally owned and used.”

[null and void]

"the government's interest in reducing gun violence." ...against jack booted thugs and their masters.

At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son

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[Las Vegas Ron]

calling it a constitutionally valid means of balancing gun rights and the government's interest in reducing gun violence.

UFB!!

Steam emanating from ears......

[MV=PY]

"While the act burdens the plaintiffs' Second Amendment rights..."

Just wow. Doesn't that mean the act is unconstitutional right there?

This is a judge speaking?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

That judge is an agenda-driven clown. Impeach him.