“In our brief,” Kraut noted, “we remind the court that repeating arms predate the Second Amendment by roughly three centuries, and that semiautomatic firearms were invented in 1885. Likewise, detachable box magazines came along back in 1862. Despite technological advances over the past 200 years, neither the sale nor possession of repeating arms of any capacity were ever banned in the United States.” [More]
So they’re putting all their eggs in the “common use” basket and ignoring the Militia completely…?
Why aren’t they talking about the core reason to own a gun which is that the populace is to have the ability (even outside of a militia) to thwart a tyrannical government? AND it is nonsensical to say that the population is to be at a technological disadvantage to a tyranny when the main purpose of the the 2A is the ability to defend one’s liberty and life against tyranny and genocide. These lawyers always gravitate back to robbers and rapists in common crime for reasons to own a gun – I DGAF about robbers and rapists as my mother and grandparents wound up in a Nazi camp.