Supreme Court could decide on states’ right to ban assault weapons
Gun advocates are challenging the right of states to ban assault weapons.
Click here for reuse options!The Connecticut and New York laws prohibit semiautomatic weapons like the one used by the gunman who fatally shot 49 people at a gay night club in Orlando in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
The Supreme Court will announce as soon as Monday whether it will hear the challenge brought by gun rights groups and individual firearms owners asserting that the laws violate the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment guarantee of the right to bear arms.
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Kim Serrahn June 19th, 2016 at 10:52
I thought Republicans believed in States Rights? Oh, my bad, they only believe in it when it suits their purpose.
Mike June 19th, 2016 at 11:24
The SCOTUS has already spoken …WTF are you talking about …???
These are Scalia’s own words …
2) Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose: For example, concealed weapons prohibitions have been upheld under the Amendment or state analogues. The Court’s opinion should not be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms. Miller’s holding that the sorts of weapons protected are those “in common use at the time” finds support in the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons. Pp. 54–56.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller
Gina Bousquet June 19th, 2016 at 14:51
It means the assault weapons ban by Connecticut and New York has been challenged by gun rights groups. SCOTUS will announce Monday wether it will hear the challenge.
oldfart June 19th, 2016 at 15:23
Wont do them any good. Most gun owners here know an AR-15 is worthless
as far as hunting is concerned. No more excuses other than a silly ruling about how many bullets per clip… but they will keep trying cause SCOPE and the NRA have a big influence here and local “county mounties” AKA sherrifs have said they will not help enforce it. (and I have to pay for these assholes).
Gina Bousquet June 19th, 2016 at 16:44
Sorry you have to put up with this kind of assholes. :)
oldfart June 19th, 2016 at 16:53
It’s the price I must pay to love my country…
Greetings and Salutations Gina.
We’re celibrating the longest day of the year today.
Gina Bousquet June 19th, 2016 at 17:27
Greetings my friend! :) Summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere?
oldfart June 19th, 2016 at 17:52
We are looking forward to please the “gods of the gardens” to provide us with another bounty of vegies !!!
It’s managed to be a hot summer, lots of dead lawns, but the garden is coming to life… thanks to a snowy winter. ;)
I wish you a very pleasent evening !
Gina Bousquet June 19th, 2016 at 18:14
Oh you have your own harvest? That’s great! A lovely evening to you as well! :)
oldfart June 19th, 2016 at 19:13
Our strawberry patch provided almost 3 quarts of strawberrys this year…and some leftover for strawberry and rum…!!! …I’m allergic to them but… a good time was had by all… be assured !!!.
We added 20 more square feet this year to our gardens…
The damn lawn is dying anyway !! :) Have a splendid evening.
Gina Bousquet June 19th, 2016 at 19:56
Simply wonderful, I envy you! Congratulations for your vegetable garden! :)