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Recent content by Rucker61

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    Active Shooter Gun Control

    Tell it to SCOTUS. Edit: in Caetano, SCOTUS was addressing "dangerous and unusual" from Heller. SCOTUS affirmed that "dangerous and unusual" was conjunctive, meaning both had to be true for Heller to allow restrictions on that class of firearms. Any class of firearms that was "in common use"...
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    Active Shooter Gun Control

    SCOTUS has told us how "in common use" is defined. The Gun Control Act of 1968 tells us what "lawful purposes" are: "...hunting, skeet shooting, target shooting and personal protection". AR-15s are covered.
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    Active Shooter Gun Control

    It's not really that arbitrary. In Caetano v Massachusetts SCOTUS described "in common use" as "hundreds of thousands sold". In Maloney v Singas, a federal court in New York decided that 64,890 sold was sufficient to be "in common use". It's unequivocal that the sales numbers of AR-15s exceed...
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    Dire Warnings About Maine Gunman Didn’t Stop His Rampage

    "As to “dangerous,” the court below held that a weapon is “dangerous per se” if it is “ ‘designed and constructed to produce death or great bodily harm’ and ‘for the purpose of bodily assault or defense.’ ” 470 Mass., at 779, 26 N. E. 3d, at 692 (quoting Commonwealth v. Appleby, 380 Mass. 296...
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    Dire Warnings About Maine Gunman Didn’t Stop His Rampage

    How many people have been killed in a mass shooting by someone using an AR style rifle?
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    Sentence structure & the Second Ammendment

    Just watched this last night.
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    British Ban On Small Firearms Is Pointless

    Does the UK still allow ownership of bolt action .22s and antique 12 bore double barrel shotguns?
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    British Ban On Small Firearms Is Pointless

    They allow you to bump fire, just like a shoestring, a rubber band or belt loop can.
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    British Ban On Small Firearms Is Pointless

    We all knew this, right?
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    British Ban On Small Firearms Is Pointless

    Thus is already under review and has been overturned by a lower court. The problem with "closer to fully automatic" is that anyone can claim this for anything. It has no definition. As best I can tell people use them to turn money into noise.
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    Sentence structure & the Second Ammendment

    Multi-shot firearms in existence at ratification: Belton repeating flintlock, 1777 The Drehling 8-shot, matchlock revolver, circa 1580. German oval-bore, .67-calibre rifle that fired 16 stacked charges of powder and ball in a rapid "Roman candle" fashion, circa 1600 (manufacturer/inventor...
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    Active Shooter Gun Control

    Including semiautomatic firearms?
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    Active Shooter Gun Control

    Why do you want all semiautomatic firearms banned from civilian ownership? Do you understand that such a ban would be unconstitutional?
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    British Ban On Small Firearms Is Pointless

    The ATF, part of the executive branch. The act banning bump stocks completely rewrote the meaning of "machine gun" in NFA 1934. Rewriting laws belongs to Congress, not unelected federal officials.
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    Sentence structure & the Second Ammendment

    If you're referring to Dobbs and Roe, when Roe was decided 30 states had complete abortion bans and 16 more had partial bans. Roe overturned precedent. The individual right to bear arms has been recognized since 1776 in the US and as early as 1857 by SCOTUS.
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