While Gov. Brown may very well have been swayed by tens of thousands of letters (although he handily beat anti-gun Republican Meg Whitman in the 2010 election with over a million votes), and while his explanation that “I don't believe that this bill's blanket ban on semi-automatic rifles would reduce criminal activity or enhance public safety enough to warrant this infringement on gun owners' rights” may be sincere, that doesn’t mean he won’t be receptive to future, less ambitious erosion. And there’s another significant factor that we addressed at the start of this report, one that may have had a significant impact of its own: The Zondorak case. [More]
This afternoon’s Gun Rights Examiner report notes that reports of our victory have been greatly exaggerated, and that those who would “make progress” with citizen disarmament are smart and patient enough to do so one step at a time.
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Zondorak's reliance on the "dangerous and unusual weapons" exception (which Scalia cited in his famous interview) is my bet for the basis of SCOTUS upholding a national semiauto ban.
What good would "harmless and ordinary" weapons be?
What would they be, anyways?
Would they be the ones that Scalia used to see in Roy Rogers and other cowboy action movies?
Instead of telling me what is prohibited, tell me what is allowed, and why, then we will discuss this further. The "right to keep and bear arms" does not specify only those arms not considered "dangerous and unusual".
If you do not like what I write, the First Amendment does not get into specifics of speech content, either.
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