Supreme Court denies challenges to bans on assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines
Supreme Court denies challenges to bans on assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines
“It is difficult to see how Maryland’s categorical prohibition on AR-15s passes muster under this framework,” he wrote.
Oh, Clarence. There are SO many things that are difficult for you to see.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary bribery depends upon his not understanding it!”
Luxury RVs aren't known for visibility.
That’s Motor Coach to you, pleb!
get the man some reading glasses already!
...but has also shown a reluctance in recent months to take up a new case on the scope of the right to bear arms under the Constitution’s Second Amendment.
Oh gee, I wonder why.
The AR-15 as well as magazines with more than 10 rounds are both in common use for lawful purposes, making any such blanket ban on either unconstitutional as per Heller.
That said, the Supreme court declines cases on the regular, which is not a judgement either for or against prior rulings. Though it does mean the prior ruling stands for now.
it's wild to me that the Court struck down the ban on bump stocks in Cargill, which are obviously unusual devices without a history of use for self-defense (and strained to misinterpret the "by a single function of the trigger" language of the NFA) yet they decline to overturn this decision.
where's the internal consistency? you'd think they'd at least follow precedent they themselves set.
This is correct. There are several state appeals court cases working through their respective processes. I hope they result in a case that gets all state rifle bans and magazine restrictions invalidated forever, but as usual it takes mere minutes for restrictions to be put in, and decades for them to be judicially removed.
Traditionally (as in the decades after the 2nd was written) all concealed carrying of weapons was illegal. It was also not uncommon for law enforcement to disarm people when they entered town. Heller is a terrible ruling because it claims to hold to history while ignoring historical norms that are inconvenient for the pro-gun lobby.
It was common during those times to open carry however. It's just that concealed carry is much, much more common now. Quite a bit of that has to do with people's attitudes toward arms. It's much easier to not upset people if they don't know you are carrying.
And I can tell you from personal experience, even if you are printing, vanishingly few people notice. When I quit my last job, told my manager I had carried every day for the last years. He had never noticed.
Conceal carry restrictions have a long history of being created and selectively enforced against the black population.
During Reconstruction, several states, especially Southern states, passed laws banning concealed carry. These laws were often aimed at disarming African-Americans, and though they did not explicitly say so because of the 14th Amendment, were not to be >enforced against whites.
Rivers H. Buford, associate justice of the Florida Supreme Court, said that the Florida law banning concealed carry, "[t]he original Act of 1893 ... was passed for the purpose of disarming the negro laborers ... and to give the white citizens in sparsely settled areas a better feeling of security. The statute was never intended to be applied to the white population and in practice has never been so applied. ... [I]t is a safe guess to assume that more than 80% of the white men living in the rural sections of Florida have violated this statute. It is also a safe guess to say that not more than 5% of the men in Florida who own pistols and repeating rifles have ever applied to the Board of County Commissioners for a permit to have the same in their possession and there has never been, within my knowledge, any effort to enforce the provisions of this statute as to white people, because it >has been generally conceded to be in contravention to the Constitution and non-enforceable if contested."[11]
In fact, Florida was not the only such state to ban the carriage of arms by blacks, nor was it the most explicit. The 1834 Tennessee Constitution, 1836 Arkansas Constitution, as well as the 1838 Florida constitution, stated "That the free white men of this State shall have a right to keep and to bear arms for their common defence."
This continued into the modern day, with Ronald Reagan and the NRA supporting and implementing the Mulford Act specifically to illegalize and target the Black Panthers and other black communities, who were exercising their rights to arm themselves to protect against police brutality and racists. Unfortunately the arming and legal targeting of the Black Panthers for that arming was very likely an FBI operation.
There were some concealed gun control laws in old west towns that were implemented against whites as well, but even then, only selectively against those the local Law Enforcement didn't like.
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I hope my fellow Democrats are finally beginning to see why disarming ourselves was such a bad fucking idea.
No, I don’t want people to run around randomly murdering each other. These laws haven’t stopped that.
It’s going to be hard to fight fascism when only the fascists are armed.
Then you get the smug assholes posting questions like, “Hey gun owners why aren’t you standing against tyranny for me?” as though I could do shit alone.
I hate that goddamn question. Literally demanding others to die on their behalf.
I think its more that some folks have been saying they needed their guns in case the government overeached and curtailed freedom. The government is doing exactly that, and many of the "guns will save my family from Incle Sam" folks are cheering the changes instead of rising up. People are pointing out the hypocrisy, not demanding people die for them
Can you share a meaningful number of examples showing Democrats with guns standing up to neo-fascists?
Because while your comment has an air of sensibility, the news stories that I've seen over the decades give the impression that the Americans who choose to own guns to protect their rights are overwhelmingly supporters of the very fascists that are in the spotlight now. I would love reason to believe otherwise, but since I don't have one, I am skeptical of your argument.
Here's a few examples:
Black community in Ohio forms safety program after neo-Nazi rally
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w0ndPOs8Q1c
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U8xXOwcW7O4
Historical examples:
Lumbee tribe vs KKK
Abolitionists & the 1860 "Race Riots" in Grinnell, Iowa
Normally I would disagree with you and continue to argue for gun control. But seeing how fucked America is at the moment you are kinda right.
It's like the gun crazies in your country finally created a situation so bad that you actually need guns...
What laws? You still get assault rifles with your eggs Benedict breakfast there in the US, so what fracking laws are you talking about?
Shoot mass shootings still happen all the time to the point where children get active shooter training because guns are more readily avait than butter.
What laws?
Your police forces receive regular arms shipments from the US army
What laws are you talking about? For all intents and purposes there are some laws that prohibit things like nukes, tanks, machine guns and other heavy weaponry but that's about it.
The US is a gun nut country and the entire attitude you have about guns is the same attitude that is the problem in the US. All other countries have solved these issues and the US still pretends that all this is new, and there is no way to stop any of this!
The US could solve prettyuch of its problems within a year if it wanted to
It just doesn't, it prefers to suffer a dnpull the rest of the world down with it
There are no laws that stopped gun violents in the US.
https://www.tmz.com/2025/06/02/king-of-the-hill-jonathan-joss-dead-shot-san-antonio-texas-voice-actor/
This shit only happens in your fucked up country. You’ve long lost the opportunity for distinguishing between good and bad gun owners. The whole world sees that y’all only have fascists with gun because America couldn’t give up their gun addiction in the first place.
That's just the price we pay for freedom.