Comments on: The Government Is Having a Hard Time With Bruen in Defending a Range of Long-Standing Gun Control Laws

By: B

Mon, 03 Feb 2025 06:56:19 +0000

The Government Is Having a Hard Time With Bruen in Defending a Range of Long-Standing Gun Control Laws

World’s smallest violin!

Seriously though, please take a look here: https://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/files/opnfiles/23-1072P-01A.pdf

This pdf shows how “Obama judges” work around Bruen to find high/large capacity magazine bans constitutional. Familiarize yourself with their methods.

Yes, there were never any laws banning magazines with more than 10 rounds in the history of our nation, but the Obama judges state that nowadays we care about school shooters, whereas our ancestors didn’t, and since sawed off shotguns are banned it’s ok to ban big mags. I kid you not, that’s the argument.

They also purport that only 1 person in US history has ever fired more than 10 rounds in self-defense—of course ignoring all the times when cops did—as if that mattered to the exercise of the right. Also ignoring the flip side that no “mass shooting” has ever occurred in RI much less one in which the shooter fired more than 10 rounds. Doesn’t seem so reasonable to impinge on hundreds of thousands of gun owners in the state for something that has literally never happened inside its borders.

Oh and the also being in some supposed expert testimony that the point of high cap mags is so mass shooters can hip fire and spray bullets.

You want to talk about tradition and normal use? what about all the other states who have no 10+ round mag bans?

By: askeptik

askeptik — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 23:36:54 +0000

Now, would someone please tell the NV SC this so they can reverse their restriction on 18-20yr olds purchasing MSR’s – and why are we restricting handgun sales to under-21 adults?

By: capt. fast

capt. fast — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 22:20:47 +0000

any time government at any level is having a difficult time controlling the citizen in any way, is a happy time for the citizen.

By: Geoff "I'm getting too old for this shit" PR

Geoff "I'm getting too old for this shit" PR — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 12:22:01 +0000

““The federal government has presented scant evidence that eighteen-to-twenty-year-olds’ firearm rights during the founding era were restricted in a similar manner to the contemporary federal handgun purchase ban, and its 19th century evidence ‘cannot provide much insight into the meaning of the Second Amendment when it contradicts earlier evidence.’”

I think I’m in lust. 😉

By: Nanashi

Nanashi — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 03:58:31 +0000

Reminder the Continental Army (who are the ones the 2A was meant to protect) was largely under 18, with its most famous enlisted member (Joseph Plumb Martin) having been 15 at enlistment. Also Thomas Jefferson, father of the Bill of Rights and 2A with it, encouraged his 15 year old Nephew to make a gun the constant companion of [his] walks. A minimum of 18 is an infrigment.

By: .40 cal Booger

.40 cal Booger — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 15:27:35 +0000

“Having failed to dodge the Bruen test, the government had to cite historical precedents that are ‘relevantly similar’ to Section 922(b)(1). It relied ‘principally on mid-to-late-19th century statutes (most enacted after Reconstruction) that restricted firearm ownership based on age.’ ”

Translation: “We know you thought you could fool us with straw grasping hand-waving freak-outery. But nope, you know you are straw grasping and trying to get something to stick – we know it too and will not let you get away with such infringements ’cause you say so’ to turn this into ‘interest balancing’. “