Posted on 05/03/2021 12:36:46 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
This law is particularly egregious, because it is a bump stock confiscation, with no compensation. You just had to turn them in.
The Maryland ban precedes the federal one. And Maryland passed a law whereas the federal ban was just an regulation change from the ATF. This makes the federal ban unlikely to be overturned even though the 6th Court ruled that the ATF had no power to create laws.
What does that mean?
Nullifying the GCA will be much more difficult than nullifying the NFA because with a bit of machining, it is possible to convert a semi into a fun gun. And something like a Sten or Grease gun is simple to make.
The DemoNazis also say we don’t “need” AR-15s. The 2nd Amendment is not about what the government thinks we “need”.
Y’all don’t want SCOTUS making major decisions hinging on goofy gotcha games like bump stocks.
Bring a basic case already, like moving to a state prohibiting ownership of something lawfully owned elsewhere, filling an NFA Form 1 “make a firearm” and getting a “rights delayed are rights denied” case to court before it’s approved, or buying a US military standard M4 (exactly what the Founding Fathers has in mind).
Very well could be why the case was declined: it’s not the case petitioners want it to be, due to federal changes.
Quite. There are far better hills to fight over right now. If y’all want to argue about the legal line for full auto, go after 922(o) already by filing a form 4 to buy a real M4.
Every time they address a Constitution matter it winds up
being a clothespin for the nose moment.
Hi ctdonath2, I hope you are well.
Although many (myself included) are disappointed that SCOTUS won’t take a 2A case, I understand the importance (to gun owners not the court) to select cases that are an egregious affront to the Second Amendment. I’ve often thought that the process would be much simpler for SCOTUS to issue an irregular (never been done) treatise on the Second Amendment. But, that won’t ever happen with their constrained authority. It is impossible for SCOTUS to take all gun cases. If they did, there would be no time for other cases.
I’ve sometimes thought that a “new” intermediate Court of Appeals should be created with the single purpose of hearing/deciding 2A cases. That way, all decisions would be decided by experts, and SCOTUS would only get the fluff.
What are your thoughts?
Gwjack
Bump stock ban. Challenging the requirement for an HQL.
Who knows. Maybe we can get rid of the AR-15 Ban.
It’s not complicated.
The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Common arms, sport and defense and hunting and war included, included.
Common people, all adult non-felons not otherwise adjudicated limited, included.
Get 1000 upstanding Selective Service registrants, with clean records, to demand their right to own an M4 - a both standard military arms, and as just a click away from being popular home defense & sporting rifles.
Don’t try to get the opposition to concede to establishing a special court devoted to complicating the issue.
Either rat finks or in on the plan.
“Bump stocks are just gimmicks. We don’t need them.”
The feds and MD have both violated the 2nd Amendment by passing and enforcing a bumpstock ban - and the failure of the USSC to address this and set things right is both absurd and unconscionable.
I would, however, far rather see Section 922(o) challenged and stricken from the US Code. The entire basis of the 1939 US v. Miller case, upholding the 1934 NFA, was that it was a tax; by eliminating the tax on post May, 1986 full autos, Section 922(o) has thus invalidated the US v. Miller decision...either that, or 922(o) is, itself, completely contrary to the law. In reality, BOTH the ‘34 NFA and 922(o) are violations of the 2nd Amendment (and, I would argue, also the 10th Amendment).
Aimed semi-auto fire is definitely more effective than full auto (or bumpstock) spray and pray, but we all have the RIGHT to a gun (or 20) with a Happy Switch if we want it.
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