Posted on 02/06/2016 8:32:39 AM PST by Wildbill22
In a major victory for gun rights advocates, a federal appeals court on Thursday sided with a broad coalition of gun owners, businesses and organizations that challenged the constitutionality of a Maryland ban on assault weapons and other laws aimed at curbing gun violence.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit said the state's prohibition on what the court called "the vast majority of semi-automatic rifles commonly kept by several million American citizens" amounted to a violation of their rights under the Constitution.
"In our view, Maryland law implicates the core protection of the Second Amendment -- the right of law-abiding responsible citizens to use arms in defense of hearth and home," Chief Judge William Traxler wrote in the divided ruling.
Provisions that outlaw these firearms, Traxler wrote, "substantially burden this fundamental right."
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Btw, that’s why you were told to take your time.
It is a liberals method of getting around double jeopardy.
It’s just another BS term brought to us by all these lawyers who get wealthy by creating never ending activist legal/litigation BS.
If America ever had real common sense leadership, all these PC terms and BS legal cases would never see the inside of a court room or even be legitimized.
Ask any of the stray dogs in my neighborhood and they'll tell you it is a BB Gun!!
WTF is a “assault weapon?” A rock, shower curtain rod, screwdriver, hammer, car, printer, chair all can be used as a weapon to assault someone.
It’s really about protecting us from a tyrannical government.
ROFLMAO
Oh don’t ever doubt, I FIRMLY believe that this is THE issue that the second Civil War could originate.
I am happy that things seem to be moving in the right direction, for a change.
I can imagine the turmoil Obama must be feeling as his ‘legacy’ of gun control and health care seem to be falling apart.
I am hopeful the tide has turned.
“...Huffpost editors...”
They probably had a stroke over it.
No loss, if so.
We win big. Again.
Of course, I don’t need a court to tell me what I can and can’t own. The Constitution says it, it’s Law, and that’s the end of it.
They want them, well... you know the rest.
Now the question is, will the Superemes now alter their prior rulings when and if this case reaches them on appeal.
[[WTF is an assault weapon?]]
a salt shaker?
“ALL “weapons†should be legalized”
I saw the video of the gun rights guy vs the libtard idiot TV guy and he made a valid point. Why should the populace be disarmed when the population are more likely the victims more than the cops?
Civilians face the the VERY SAME dangers that cops face so why should they not have guns? Damn Youtube, the stuff I learn...
I wonder if the Left is so against guns because they believe they will be used against them? Now what are they doing to think gun owners might need to aim their weapons at them?
ALLAHU FUBAR!!!!!
That’s part of it.
Also, calling it an assault rifle means it doesn’t meet the standards of a Battle Rifle.
Well armed, with sufficient and sufficiently compatible matériel to be able to perform the required functionality and be supportable if called up and deployed.
Well armed, with sufficient and sufficiently compatible materiel to be able to perform the required functionality and be supportable if called up and deployed.
At the least there needs to be a way of coordinating who gets called up, and who continues to keep the country functioning.
They need high capacity magazines and rapid firing capabilities...for the exact same reasons that the police do.
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