Posted on 04/06/2018 7:13:35 PM PDT by Kaslin
Well, it was not a good day for the stock market and it wasn’t a good day for gun rights. A federal judge decided to uphold a law that already strengthened the state’s ban on so-called assault weapons. The judge went on the whole weapons of war tangent in his opinion (via Bloomberg)
Massachusetts’ beefed-up ban on assault weapons doesn’t violate the Second Amendment of the Constitution, a U.S. judge ruled, handing a victory to gun-control advocates seeking to pass such a law nationwide following a spate of deadly mass shootings.
"The AR-15 and its analogs, along with large capacity magazines, are simply not weapons within the original meaning of the individual constitutional rights to ‘bear arms,’" U.S. District Judge William Young wrote in a decision Thursday in Boston, dismissing a lawsuit over the state law.
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey was sued by a gun-rights group in response to her July 2016 enforcement notice that broadened the definition of "copies or duplicates" of AR-15 and AK-47 models that are prohibited under the state’s 1998 assault-weapon bans.
“These are weapons of war that belong on the battlefield, and we were pleased today to see yet another court agree with that stance,” Kris Brown, co-president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said in a statement.
In Boulder, Colorado, the council is moving forward to ban AR-15s within the city limits. High capacity magazines and bump stocks will also be prohibited (via Fox31 Denver):
The Boulder City Council passed the first read of an ordinance that will ban the sale and possession of assault weapons in the city,.
The ordinance was passed unanimously after a five-hour hearing during which nearly 150 people spoke.
The proposed ordinance would also ban high-capacity magazines and bump stocks.
The city council will possibly vote on the measure two more times before it becomes law.
Councilwoman Jill Adler Grano said, “This is not a knee-jerk reaction.”
Folks, this is why when the Left says we want a new ban on so-called assault weapons (i.e. guns we think that look scary), don’t give in; they’ll take a mile. And while there have been multiple legal challenges on existing assault weapons bans, the Supreme Court refuses to hear arguments. I get it. We have a right to bear arms, every state to a certain degree recognizes carry rights, more states have adopted constitutional carry laws (no permit required), and Second Amendment proponents have scored big on the legal front in the past regarding the Heller and McDonald decisions. Yes, the late Justice Antonin Scalia said that no right is absolute and states are free to pass laws regulating how this right is exercised, but this is not simple gun control; it’s a ban. The magazine limits give the game away. You cannot own an AR-15 rifle, which will be added into the news coverage. What will be missed are the scores of handguns that carry more than ten rounds, which will also be banned.
In Illinois, Deerfield, a suburb of Chicago, banned residents from owning AR-15 rifles and high capacity magazines. They have until June to turn them over to the authorities, destroy them, or transfer them out of the village limits. Owners risk a $1,000/day fine for non-compliance. So, the Second Amendment is dead in this slice of America. They’re instituting a gun ban—and threatening law-abiding gun owners with quasi-eviction if they don’t bend to the will of the state. In Oregon, a church group is also collecting signatures for a ballot initiative that would also force law-abiding gun owners to turn over, register, destroy, or transfer out of the state their firearms. This is why the anti-gun Left cannot be trusted. This is why the Supreme Court needs to weigh in. we’re past simple laws now; the local authorities in these deep-blue pockets of America are coming after the Second Amendment and the people who exercise that right. You can’t live here if you want to own a firearm. That’s grossly unconstitutional.
And the shootings will continue until all is confiscated and the evil will use other means, dumb a##es
“Why are they aiming a weapon of war at a kid in a closet?”
That is a federal agent enforcing democrat President Bill Clinton’s immigrant deportation policy.
Remember when the NRA would take unconstitutional gun grabs all the way to the SCOTUS if needed? I heard that the NRA has had an unpresidented increase in memberships but I see nothing on its part to sue the commie mayors, governors, and evil men in black robes who are hell bent on removing our constitutional rights. If the NRA wants to keep getting my money they need to start taking action NOW!
Boulder is no surprise to me at all.
It’s like LA. Who would live in these places? And why????
why don’t we get billboards up to teach this history?
Well now, wait.
In the original Heller case, the charges had to do with a sawed-off shotgun and the government lied to the court saying they were NOT "weapons of war" because they had never been issued to troops (a demonstrable lie) and were not covered by 2A.
Defense didn't show up so the notion was not challenged in court.
2A is specifically about weapons of war.
This pissant "judge" just turned 2A on its head.
The gun grabbing judge can now try to send his jack booted thugs in to collect the guns. I predict a lot of dead jack booted thugs.
“The AR-15 and its analogs, along with large capacity magazines, are simply not weapons within the original meaning of the individual constitutional rights to ‘bear arms,’” U.S. District Judge William Young wrote in a decision Thursday in Boston, dismissing a lawsuit over the state law.”
Well, if there are enough wussies to allow one prick, enshrining his own opinion into law, to take away their guns, then it doesn’t really matter if the wussies have guns anyway.
My bad - that was Miller, not Heller.
EXCLUSIVE: INS agent at center of Elián González saga would like to host him in the U.S.
“...Me trying to fight off the police from taking away my God given rights will be an item in the newspaper about the nutcase with an “arsenal” of 12 weapons and 15,000 rounds of ammo...”
We all have an expiration date, friend.
And what the newspaper thinks of me is irrelevant. We either HAVE the Right - and are willing to defend it - or we do not. They can only take away what you are willing to give up.
Personally, I’d rather live one moment as a Lion than a million moments as a sheep.
Every Man who ever bled and died for those rights, from this minute all the way back to Lexington understood that.
THAT’S interesting...
THANKS
We still got these: https://www.intothejungle.org/best-semi-auto-tactical-shotguns-home-defense/
9 pellets in a 00 buck coming quickly at ya will NOT make your day!
And the speed that the next shell is chambered for use is astounding!
Best thing: they don’t LOOK that SCARY!!!!
...against all enemies: foreign and DOMESTIC.
Come and take it
I guess that manufacturing and GIVING them away would be ok then!
“Didn’t during the Obozo years Colorado ban high cap mags”
By a nice lady from Colorado Springs who was a New York transplant and friends with Bloomberg. She got recalled but the ban is still in place.
We'll be the tip of the spear.
We look so innocent and grandfatherly...
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