…“Their decisions to deny certificates of registration for commonly possessed semiautomatic firearms runs afoul of binding Supreme Court precedent & therefore trample the Second Amendment rights of #law abiding citizens.”prosecutors claimed.
Prosecutors cited a 2008 #SCOTUS ruling that held […]
#DOJ sues #DC over ban of #AR15s & other #SemiautomaticGuns
The suit incorrectly claims that the registration restrictions on semi-automatic rifles in DC is an “unconstitutional ban.” In a lawsuit Monday, #Trump admin attys chastised the city for its code banning most #SemiautomaticRifles & […]
“We decline to wield the #Constitution to declare that #military-style armaments, which have become primary instruments of #MassKilling & #terrorist attacks in the #UnitedStates, are beyond the reach of our nation’s democratic processes,” Judge Wilkinson added.
#law #SCOTUS #SecondAmendment […]
The #law’s ban on what critics call #AssaultWeapons ban did not violate the #SecondAmendment because rapid-firing long guns “are #military-style weapons designed for sustained #combat operations that are ill-suited & disproportionate to the need for self-defense,” wrote Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson […]
Justice Brett M. #Kavanaugh, who could have supplied the fourth vote needed to add the case to the court’s docket, issued a statement saying the question was significant & could soon warrant review but that he hoped additional opinions from lower courts could assist the justices on the issue. He […]
“I doubt we would sit idly by if lower courts were to so subvert our precedents involving any other constitutional right,” ummm what?] he wrote. “Until we are vigilant in enforcing it, the right to bear arms will remain ‘a second-class right.’” [[#hypocrisy]
Justices #Alito & #Gorsuch said they […]
“I would not wait to decide whether the government can ban the most popular rifle in America,” #ClarenceThomas wrote. “That question is of critical importance to tens of millions of law-abiding #AR15 owners throughout the country. We have avoided deciding it for a full decade.”
He added that […]
The Maryland law was enacted in 2013 in response to the #MassShooting at #SandyHook Elementary School in Connecticut the previous year. It banned many semiautomatic rifles & imposed a 10-round limit on #GunMagazines.
In dissent, Justice #ClarenceThomas said the court should have considered the […]
#SCOTUS announced on Monday that it would NOT hear a major #SecondAmendment challenge to a Maryland #law banning #SemiautomaticRifles like the #AR15. As is the court’s practice, its brief order gave no reasons.
The move, over the objections of 3 conservative justices, let the ban stand & […]
This device is designed only for killing a lot of people quickly.
#Trump's admin agreed on Friday to permit the sale & possession of devices that let gun enthusiasts convert #SemiautomaticRifles into weapons that can shoot as fast as #MachineGuns.
The agreement came in a #settlement announced […]
