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Read the Bruen opinion - it's well-written and actually pretty clear that recent (really, meaning the last two centuries) gun restrictions are unconstitutional.
by dublin 4y ago
Read the Bruen opinion - it's well-written and actually pretty clear that recent (really, meaning the last two centuries) gun restrictions are unconstitutional. Any restrictions have to be ones that would have been commonly in place when the Constitution originated, so generally, no later than 1791.
It's likely (and a really good thing for liberty and Constitutional rights in general) that Bruen will invalidate both the heinously unconstitutional 1934 National Firearms Act (which was never allowed to face a court challenge), and also the 1968 Gun Control Act, so yeah, full auto will likely be confirmed to have always been protected by the Constitution once the current slug of cases challenging these laws makes it through the courts.
Once the NFA falls, firearms manufacturing of all kinds will be opened up to every citizen. This is already starting a renaissance in the 3D printed guns community. (Current 3D printed guns are still a very poor substitute for their machined counterparts, but they now work well enough now to be the equivalent of really cheap, bad guns, and have the advantage that they do not require registration, which is really just a database for confiscation or harassment.)
- glial 4y agoI can accept that Bruen's arguments have a certain internal logic. What I don't understand is how we have decided weigh the "right" of having guns vs the "right" to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. According to the Declaration of Independence, the latter is what the government is for, and everything else -- even and especially the bill of rights -- is an implementation decision designed too further those aims. Given that the US 22x more per capita gun deaths than the EU, perhaps we missed the mark. Maybe it's just me, but it seems like gun proliferation is in practice harmful to life.
- OkayPhysicist 4y agoWell, better round up a referendum for a constitutional amendment then.
- 15155 4y ago> Declaration of Independence A document penned before the United States Constitution which has zero legal authority - a letter to King George III.
- cozzyd 4y agoIf the NFA is repealed, hopefully that will finally galvanize popular support to repeal the second amendment.
- mint2 4y agoThat comment sounds excited at the prospect of a Wild West of guns becoming the norm once again, that’s not standard even for gun owners.