Posted on 06/08/2015 6:58:11 AM PDT by GIdget2004
The Supreme Court has turned down another National Rifle Association-led appeal aimed at loosening gun restrictions and instead left in place two San Francisco gun laws.
The court on Monday let stand court rulings in favor of a city measure that requires handgun owners to secure weapons in their homes by storing them in a locker, keeping them on their bodies or applying trigger locks. A second ordinance bans the sale of ammunition that expands on impact, has "no sporting purpose" and is commonly referred to as hollow-point bullets.
Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas said they would have heard the appeal from the NRA and San Francisco gun owners.
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“A second ordinance bans the sale of ammunition that expands on impact, has “no sporting purpose” and is commonly referred to as hollow-point bullets. “
Um, that’s incorrect, thank you for playing.
Major loss. Major step towards the end. Must keep you firearm mostly unreachable/usable or go to jail. Infringement.
I would think that statement is backwards but . . . I’m speechless on this one.
They get paid too much to be that ignorant.
I ALWAYS use hollow points while sport hunting.
Or something like that
The NRA needs to bust SF, not the fed SC.
It says you can keep the weapon on your body.
apparently the USSC has turned to the radical left side.
this could spell trouble for upcoming ussc obamacare decisions. and beyond that, for the future of the usa as we have known it up to now.
if the ussc does not uphold the constitution, it becomes the responsibility of the people themselves to do so.
And HPs for sport target rifle shooting.
What about their SWAT squad?
I was wondering why the hell we were winning at the SCOTUS level. Well, looks like they got that under control.
Wonder if that sentence can be used to carry in SF?
"Sez so right there, officer!"
No. They ruled you could use a gun for self defense at home, and that gun rights, 'like all rights' are not unlimited. And that guns can be regulated in areas such as schools, .gov areas, and other such places.
“just turned” lol, did you miss the ObamaCaRE RULING?
The federal courts are the ones upholding the laws as constitutional.
Justice Clarence Thomas said in a dissent that lower courts are not giving full recognition of the individual right to own a handgun that the Supreme Court recognized in 2008 in District of Columbia v. Heller.Joined by Justice Antonin Scalia, Thomas said there is "no question" San Francisco's law burdens that right.
"We warned in Heller that `a constitutional guarantee subject to future judges' assessments of its usefulness is no constitutional guarantee at all,'" Thomas wrote. "The Court of Appeals in this case recognized that San Francisco's law burdened the core component of the Second Amendment guarantee, yet upheld the law."
9th Circuit Decision - Filed March 25, 2014
I'm surprised Scalia and Thomas composed any suggestion of dissent. The federal courts are nearly uniform in their hostility (and rank dishonesty), when it comes to the right to keep and bear arms.
Hardly. You might be thinking of the McDonald case, which applied the Heller decision (it is unconstitutional to apply a blanket ban on possession of handguns at home), to the states and other law-making entities.
No harm was done to federal regulation, and Scalia went out of his way to say (in Heller) that a ban that has stood for a long time becomes constitutional just by dint of standing for a long a time.
By definition (in the Alice in Wonderland sense), everything SCOTUS holds up as constitutional, IS constitutional.
What are you, some sort of anarchist?
I thought California law established that only the state can make laws pertaining to firearms, not cities, towns or counties?
Im glad that I only use Keith-designed bullets!
Gun locks? What are they? This is Louisiana, not
Queery-fornia!
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