Posted on 07/30/2010 8:50:32 PM PDT by Rabin
"In an important Second Amendment decision that charts a course for evaluating the validity of gun laws now that the U.S. Supreme Court has declared the right to be an individual one, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to strike down a federal law that bans possession of guns with obliterated serial numbers… McLaughlin held that the Second Amendment does not protect a right to own handguns with obliterated serial numbers and that 922(k) does not meaningfully burden the "core" right recognized in Heller -- the right to possess firearms for defense of hearth and home."
See also (The Legal Intelligencer, http://www.law.com/jsp/pa/this_week.jsp)
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“The courts” rule many unconstitutional things.
Any “penalty” for an obliterated firearm serial number will just be ignored or served concurrently with whatever sentence a criminal receives...it has absolutely no effect on a criminal...only a law-abiding citizen will ever be affected by these arcane “laws” passed by the real criminal class...otherwise known as “politicians”.
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