Supreme Court lets stand law banning some semi-automatic weapons
The high court declined to take up a challenge to a Connecticut law passed in the wake of the Sandy Hook tragedy.
Click here for reuse options!The law bans certain semi-automatic assault weapons and large capacity magazines.
Although the decision comes days after the Orlando shooting, that event probably didn’t move the justices either way. In recent years the Court has declined to take up a major Second Amendment case. In 2008, 5-4 Supreme Court held in District of Columbia v Heller that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to bear arms, and except for a follow up decision two years later, the court has not weighed in again.
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Buford2k11 June 20th, 2016 at 10:10
ok…Imagine how much better this Nation will be without the republican wing of the Supreme Court, selling out our Nation to the NRA and to the Corporate wing of the GOP…May President Hillary Clinton appoint many Supreme court Justices during her Eight Year Tenure…
Mike June 20th, 2016 at 10:11
It was a moot case, every challenge brought by the petetioner had been addressed in Heller.
William June 20th, 2016 at 10:34
Your move idiots.
labman57 June 20th, 2016 at 11:35
Awaiting the outcry from the NRA and gun fanatics:
“Who cares what the SCOTUS thinks? Since when do they get to decide what is and isn’t constitutional?”
The Original Just Me June 20th, 2016 at 12:56
When I was eight years old, I started using firearms. I even owned a single shot pistol at eight. I was taught how and why to use a gun. A firearm is used in Civilian Life as a Sport, Hunting, Competitive, and Recreational devise. That is how all Americans WERE brought up. Now days, the people are being taught, advised, and trained to believe that a firearm is only to be used to kill other people, of coarse as in self defense. No longer is a firearm a devise of pleasure or hunting, they are now only thought of as a Human Killing devise. That is what is wrong with America Today.
Amersham46 June 20th, 2016 at 18:12
One state at a time ,it is a good statrt