Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules for First and Second Amendments in Armslist Case

Ammoland ^ | 1 May, 2019 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has upheld a lower court's decision that Armslist's ads and tools are protected by the Communications Decency Act (CDA).  The act was designed to preserve freedom of speech on the Internet by immunizing web sites for the publishing of third party content. Armslist facilitates the communication between willing firearm sellers and buyers.  The lower court had been overturned by a Wisconsin Court of Appeals. This decision protects both First and Second Amendment rights. From fox6now.com:

Radcliffe Haughton’s wife, Zina Daniel Haughton, had taken out a restraining order against him that prohibited him from possessing a firearm. But he bought a semiautomatic pistol and ammunition from a person he met through Armslist.com, according to court documents.

His estranged wife had been granted a restraining order on 18 October.

From court records, Haughton purchased the gun from a private party, instead of trying to purchase it at a federally licensed dealer. He placed an ad to purchase a gun on 20 October. The ad was answered and he purchased a Glock .40 caliber pistol the same day, from a private party.

The next day, on the morning of 21 October, he murdered his wife and two other women, wounding others, then killing himself.

The Communications Decency Act protects First Amendment Rights on the Internet.

The lawsuit against Armslist is a direct attack against both First Amendment and Second Amendment rights. If successful, the lawsuit would have chilled the ability of websites to allow the free exchange of information

[marktwain]

Claiming publishers are liable for acts committed by third parties after they connected by the publisher would be greatly chilling of First Amendment freedoms.

[gibsonguy]

Thank God the conservative won the recent SC race in Wisconsin after the bastards stole the Governors race.

[faithhopecharity]

if the commie/nazis ever succeed in holding publishers responsible for the independent actions of criminals who read their pubs,
it will indeed be the end of the 1st amendment

but on the other hand, we could finally shut down krapsheets like the NYSlimes, WashingGost, LASlimes, SFComical, and...MSNBC,ABC,NBC,CBS

in other words, what goes around...comes around....so that the commie-nazi leftist extremists would be wise to stop trying to take away our Constitutional rights

[SauronOfMordor]

If Armslist can be held liable for connecting a buyer and seller, then Facebook and Twitter can be held liable for allowing Antifa activists to organize on their platforms.

[5th MEB]

The only problem with your reasoning is that if the COMMIE/NAZIS/LEFTIST/PROG/LIB/DEMS ever managed to shut down the FIRST AMENDMENT do you really think they would shut down the PROPAGANDA ORGANS you listed?

Usually the STATE likes to keep their propaganda organs healthy so they can keep propagating their lies.
Just like DER STURMER, VOLKISCHER BEOBACHTER, and DER ANGRIFF.
Just a fortunate happenstance that television alpha bet soup networks weren’t available to Hitler and Goebbels at that time.

[faithhopecharity]

Yup.