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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."
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
A court can recognize this fact. If it doesn’t, it is not a legitimate authority. Yay court for not being communistic.
One of the things that “well regulated militias” do is store more dangerous implements of war in armories for distribution to the trained citizens who belong to the militia in case of emergency. The tricky part is defining what is a more dangerous implement of war
On a separate note, now that women have been judged eligible for every branch and twig of the armed services, there is now talk of requiring national registration of women as well as men. Any thoughts on that issue?
Der ver two peanuts valking down the stassa..
And von of then was a salted peanut...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I3zCQzZx68
"Assault salsa" and maybe "Assault wings" in the food category.
"Assault stupidity" for basically every liberal viewpoint.
Maybe "Assault level friendliness" for my dog and "Assault level indifference" for my cat.
It is wicked and mean-spirited and against the very order of nature as God set it up to register women in the anticipation of compulsory military service in defense or offense of a country. It will bring additional judgments on our land. It is a pox and a black spot in the history of our country to even consider a thing.
By the way, would any liberal women reading this please stop staring at me like I’m hurting you when I hold the door for you?
“there is now talk of requiring national registration of women as well as men.”
That’s all it is, talk.
Semi-automatic rifles, or pistols, or whatever, are not “assault weapons”. No more than Toyota Hilux pickup trucks are “assault vehicles”.
ISIS obtains these vehicles, not from Toyota directly, but through theft, sales through third parties, importations from countries other than Syria or Iraq or by international smuggling. Then they are modified to carry armaments, rocket launchers, machine guns and war material of various kind.
It is not the product itself that are “assault” by their very nature, it is the evil uses to which they are put by men of malicious will.
Only the control and eventual elimination of the bearded men with the burning eyes will take away the “assault” aspect of these products of modern manufacturing capability.
“Regulated and regulating (as in “a well regulated militia) is a term that us unclear. It was used differently back then.”
I have wondered about that as well. I wonder if the modern modern equivalent might be “a well trained militia”, “an organized and disciplined militia”, or “a highly ready response force” might be closer to what they meant, rather than the modern connotation of regulations as restrictions or limitations. I guess that minutemen were the model of the day.
The term regular continued in use in relation to the military into my lifetime, in things like regular soldiers , or the Regular Army.
My dog does that LOL
Precsely. ALL “weapons” should be legalized. If the gubmint can have grenades, missiles and nukes, you can too (if you can afford it, no welfare in nuke handouts).
Invalid arguments from politicians:
“those weapons don’t belong on the street”
“those are military weapons”
http://cap-n-ball.com/fathers.htm
The Founding Fathers on the Second Amendment
“I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.”
George Mason
Co-author of the Second Amendment
during Virginia’s Convention to Ratify the Constitution, 1788
“A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves …”
Richard Henry Lee
writing in Letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republic, Letter XVIII, May, 1788.
“The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full posession of them.”
Zachariah Johnson
Elliot’s Debates, vol. 3 “The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution.”
“… the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms”
Philadelphia Federal Gazette
June 18, 1789, Pg. 2, Col. 2
Article on the Bill of Rights
“And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the Press, or the rights of Conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms; …”
Samuel Adams
quoted in the Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, August 20, 1789, “Propositions submitted to the Convention of this State”
The Founding Fathers on Arms
“Firearms stand next in importance to the constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence … from the hour the Pilgrims landed to the present day, events, occurences and tendencies prove that to ensure peace security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable … the very atmosphere of firearms anywhere restrains evil interference — they deserve a place of honor with all that’s good.”
George Washington
First President of the United States
“The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as property. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside … Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.”
Thomas Paine
“To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.”
Richard Henry Lee
American Statesman, 1788
“The great object is that every man be armed.” and “Everyone who is able may have a gun.”
Patrick Henry
American Patriot
“Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?”
Patrick Henry
American Patriot
“Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not.”
Thomas Jefferson
Third President of the United States
“The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that … it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; … “
Thomas Jefferson
letter to Justice John Cartwright, June 5, 1824. ME 16:45.
“The best we can help for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.”
Alexander Hamilton
The Federalist Papers at 184-8
Military should be all volunteers.
Registration and all that stuff is a legal trap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTFrt_w5g5Y
Conscripts will kill you from the inside.
Where are those thinkers now?
The whole country is like some kind of spoiled brat
“Well that’s just stupid, so why do we allow the term assault gun?”
Why do we allow the term “gun violence,” as though it were some special kind of violence?
Well I agree that a voluntary army is the best way to go. But if we get invaded by Grenada or Cuba :-) we might have to go to a draft at some point to save the nation. That’s the only way I defend a draft.
Exactly.
Thanks for posting this. Fox is busy pushing establishment rino and anmnesty boy. First, you could tell when they totally ignored the bombshell Drudge Headline that Phyllis Shlafly thinks rubio is a liar and a deceiver and should never be president and then this huge gun decision. Where is FAUX??
Assault rifles are full auto. These are not assault rifles
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