A federal judge in Mississippi has begrudgingly ordered that the federal ban on machine gun possession is unconstitutional (AS APPLIED TO ONLY THE DEFENDANT IN THIS CASE) pic.twitter.com/2iSi7Dv6Fk
David Codrea is a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament.
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This ruling may apply only to this one case but it can be used as a precedent in subsequent court cases.
Try as I might, I cannot understand why a case that fortifies the second amendment, from a Federal court no less, only applies to this one person! At a bare minimum, it should apply to all persons residing in the Southern District of Mississippi, Northern Division. If it does apply to only one person, how is this equal protection under the law? Is the court saying that each person that wants to possess a machine gun must sue for that right in Federal Court?
Especiallly since the argument the antis would like to get back to — and some, like DNC Vice Chair David Hogg still make — is that 2A doesn’t protect an INDIVIDUAL right…
This ruling may apply only to this one case but it can be used as a precedent in subsequent court cases.
Try as I might, I cannot understand why a case that fortifies the second amendment, from a Federal court no less, only applies to this one person! At a bare minimum, it should apply to all persons residing in the Southern District of Mississippi, Northern Division. If it does apply to only one person, how is this equal protection under the law? Is the court saying that each person that wants to possess a machine gun must sue for that right in Federal Court?
Especiallly since the argument the antis would like to get back to — and some, like DNC Vice Chair David Hogg still make — is that 2A doesn’t protect an INDIVIDUAL right…