Posted on 06/30/2023 6:35:39 AM PDT by CFW
Whether Illinois' gun and magazine bans are constitutional is now up to a federal appeals court.
The consolidated cases challenging state and local gun and magazine bans in Illinois were heard Thursday by a three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
Defendants asked the court to affirm the Northern District Court upholding the bans while reversing a Southern District Court injunction against the law.
Using U.S. Supreme Court precedent from an opinion released last year, plaintiffs argue the gun ban violates the Second Amendment plain text and there’s no history or tradition of governments banning commonly owned firearms like AR-15s and magazines over 10 rounds for rifles and 15 rounds for handguns.
Illinois Deputy Solicitor General Sarah Hunger argued Thursday that the bans on semi-automatic firearms are constitutional.
“Assault weapons are virtually identical weapons to M-16s but for one thing, which is that M-16s can use automatic fire instead of semi-automatic fire and sure that is a distinction but it is not one that is constitutionally determinative,” Hunger said.
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And just as in this case, the left uses hypothetical examples that have no bearing on the issue to argue that certain firearms should be banned.
It takes years of law school think that this gives the "free State" authority to deny law abiding citizens ownership of guns.
Another example of how retarded these stupid gun laws and the morons who come up with them are. It is a felony for a drug addict to possess a gun but it is legal for an alcoholic to possess a car. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. I’m missing something here.
Eh? Exactly what is an assault weapon, Mr. Hunger?
..are virtually identical weapons to M-16s but for one thing, which is that M-16s can use automatic fire instead of
semi-automatic fire and sure that is a distinction but it is not one that is constitutionally determinative,” Hunger said.
Well, Mr. Hunger, the Bruen case holds otherwise. Maybe the decision's finding that you "need to evaluate the
regulation not in consideration of the public good, but in light of the "historical tradition of firearm regulation" should be reread.
What’s so hard to understand about “shall not be infringed”?
Here is a Winchester from 1907.
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/53410/has-a-weapon-functionally-equivalent-to-the-ar-15-been-available-for-u-s-civili
And another Remington Model 8 made in 1906.
https://laststandonzombieisland.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/mtgs-texas-ranger-model-8.jpg.
The only reason semi-auto rifles were not available in 1860 was smokeless powder had not been invented yet.
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