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Appeals court decision casts doubt on Maryland’s assault weapons ban
A federal appeals court on Thursday cast doubt on the legality of Maryland’s 2013 ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines passed after the mass shootings at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.
The 2-1 decision by a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit sends the gun-control law back to a lower court for review because it “implicates the core protection of the Second Amendment.”
In its majority opinion, written by Chief Judge William B. Traxler Jr., the court found that the Maryland law “significantly burdens the exercise of the right to arm oneself at home.”
The law bans more than 45 types of assault weapons and clips that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition. Proponents of the law said such weapons are disproportionately used in mass acts of violence and rarely for self-defense. A federal law banning assault weapons expired in 2004.
A group of gun store owners and others challenged the constitutionality of the law, saying that it violated their Second Amendment right to bear arms.
Opponents of the ban, including the Maryland State Rifle and Pistol Association and the Maryland Licensed Firearms Dealers Association, have said that the prohibited firearms are not military weapons. Many owners have bought the guns for lawful purposes such as self-defense, target practice and hunting.
Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh (D) helped pass the law as a state senator, said the majority opinion got it wrong.Never-you-mind that "assault weapon" is an entirely regulatory crafted term that has no real technical meaning, and that military-style does not actually mean fully automatic.
“I think it’s just common sense that the Second Amendment does not give people a right to own military-style assault weapons,” he said Thursday.
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Having lived in Maryland, against my choice, for several years, I can say with authority that the entire state should fall into the ocean. Fuck that place.
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All 6 packs of beer in Maryland have 10oz cans.Swaye said:Having lived in Maryland, against my choice, for several years, I can say with authority that the entire state should fall into the ocean. Fuck that place.
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Where's all our TSA freedom fighters now?
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I feel similarly about Illinois after 3 unhappy years there.Swaye said:Having lived in Maryland, against my choice, for several years, I can say with authority that the entire state should fall into the ocean. Fuck that place.
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I must have missed the Ar-15 clause of the 2nd amendment.RaceBannon said:Where's all our TSA freedom fighters now?
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That's what made the TSA thread so amusing. You are more than happy to give up other people's freedoms. Just don't delay you at the airport
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It was about the NSA. But still.RaceBannon said:That's what made the TSA thread so amusing. You are more than happy to give up other people's freedoms. Just don't delay you at the airport
Does the 2nd amendment say all arms except scary ones that get panties in a wad? -
Yeah but you knowdoogsinparadise said:
It was about the NSA. But still.RaceBannon said:That's what made the TSA thread so amusing. You are more than happy to give up other people's freedoms. Just don't delay you at the airport
Does the 2nd amendment say all arms except scary ones that get panties in a wad? -
#blackgunsmatter
the term "assault weapon" has about as much definitive meaning as "guns that look scary" -
Lived there for awhile too. That state is as fucked as any place on this planet. Easily the most racist place I have ever been. Fucked up accents too. Will never go back.Swaye said:Having lived in Maryland, against my choice, for several years, I can say with authority that the entire state should fall into the ocean. Fuck that place.
