N.Y. Federal Judge Upholds N.Y. Stun Gun/Taser Ban… “[T]he Second Amendment does not protect those weapons not typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes.” Therefore, Plaintiffs must show that stun guns and tasers are in “common use” today, and that they are “typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes.” [More]
[Via Jess]
Time and again we hand over the ropes they’ll hang us with.
Tempus fugit, or maybe it has already taken the last train out of town.
“Caetano v. Massachusetts was a Supreme Court case in 2016 where the Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects the right to possess stun guns for self-defense, overturning a Massachusetts law that banned them. The decision emphasized that the right to bear arms extends to all bearable weapons, even those not in common use at the time the Second Amendment was enacted.”
What happened since then?
What happened since then is that District Court judges have been emboldened to ignore and outright defy clear and unambiguous SCOTUS rulings as they see fit.
We also have laws and bills in Colorado and California to completely ban all semi-automatics (in defiance of Heller, which ruled that whole classes of firearms [such as handguns] may not be banned on the argument that other types are available), the California version of which was just upheld by the 9th Circuit (watch Judge Van Dyke’s now-famous video dissent).
Keep all this in mind any time the antis claim they can’t or won’t go after something because “it’s settled law”. Clearly the District and Circuit judges believe otherwise and are willing to act on it.
Of course, SCOTUS (and Chief Justice John Roberts) could stop this….
This must be the new judicial playbook. Very similar to the recent CA switchblade ruling.