Attorneys representing the Second Amendment Foundation and its partners in a federal challenge of the Illinois ban on modern semi-auto firearms and “large-capacity magazines” have filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking certiorari in the case of Harrel v. Raoul. [More]
Be careful that you don’t turn “common use” into a precedential limitation.
The courts have already given the evil eye to weapons that are unusually scary or dangerous, and seem predisposed to ones that people have drawn into common use. So that’s likely a terrain feature we’re just going to have to deal with like it or not.
Also, Congress has already seen fit to ban a weapons technology that does not yet exist: i.e. the undetectable firearm. Another thing we’re just going to have to deal with, like it or not.
I disagree.
After semiautos are ruled protected, push for more.
It’s ARMS in common use the militia of the whole people providing the security of a free state is entitled to. Not SOME ALLOWED “self-defense” arms.
‘ Not SOME ALLOWED “self-defense” arms. ‘
From a legal standpoint, you are correct. From a practical standpoint, not so much. I wouldn’t get all that hung up on what FedGov allows. If the War on Drugs has taught America anything, it would be that we can have anything we want regardless of what FedGov allows us to have. IOW, federal law is just another bump in the road if you really, really want something.
Or as a family friend once told me “Marijuana has been illegal since before i was born, yet I’ve smoked it every day of my adult life. What makes you think I give a damn what gun laws they pass?”
“Defy, resist, evade, smuggle!” — Mike Vanderboegh
I understand all that. But I’m still going to work to add one more to DRES: Repeal.
P for Print?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHIvrsApOiQ