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Reagan was the one who banned guns in California, and the 2 cases you mention seem irrelevant
by codersfocus 3y ago
Reagan was the one who banned guns in California, and the 2 cases you mention seem irrelevant
- rtkwe 3y agoThe cases show the former and long running consensus in the court that some regulations were not unconstitutional infringements in contrast to the "shall not be infringed" absolutism popular among progun groups today.
- greedo 3y agoAB 1591 was signed into law not because Reagan supported gun control in general, but because the Black Panthers had been conducting armed protests in 1967. 12 years after signing the Mulford Act into law, Reagan diminished the act; "I hardly think it was gun control."
- greedo 3y agoSo a SCOTUS decision that states the obvious purpose of the 2nd Amendment are state militias seems irrelevant...