Maryland Assault Weapons Ban Upheld by 4th Circuit Court

[Eric P]

Wasn't the 2nd to allow citizens to have military grade weapons to keep our government in check?

[SamuraiCO]

Yep. Throughout history those with the best weapons of the time were able to control those without whether by force or ordained by higher authorities. Our founders knew this point very well and understood it was to be needed to keep our Gov in check. The time has come and gone outside of the voting booth and never ending judicial challenges with winning verdicts for this to happen with the advent of a national military and all the Fed agencies that have been created to support the Gov. The original revolutionaries would have been rounded up and imprisoned long ago.

[Bailey Guns]

I am no lawyer so what does this mean to the common man/woman today?

Simply put, in layman's terms? Don't move to Maryland.

[Rucker61]

I ran some numbers using FBI UCR data. Since 2004, Maryland has averaged 3.3 homicides by rifle through 2015. In fact, from 2013-2015, they had 4 in total. They've had a total of 40 rifle homicides during that time period. They've had 3,659 homicides by handgun. They've had 716 homicides by knife. They've not had a single random mass shooting with any kind of firearm.

So to protect the people of Maryland they pass and uphold a law that doesn't take away any guns, instead of addressing preventing the criminals from using handguns that kill 91 times the number of people killed by all types of rifles or addressing knives that were used to kill 18 times the number of people killed by someone with a rifle.

I bet they're real proud today.

[Rucker61]

I just noticed that there is no grandfather clause for the Maryland law. Owners who did not register them before 1994 must get rid of them.

How can experienced jurists claim that they can't assume 2nd Amendment protections to "weapons of war" when US v Miller does exactly that?

[jhood001]

I ran some numbers using FBI UCR data. Since 2004, Maryland has averaged 3.3 homicides by rifle through 2015. In fact, from 2013-2015, they had 4 in total. They've had a total of 40 rifle homicides during that time period. They've had 3,659 homicides by handgun. They've had 716 homicides by knife. They've not had a single random mass shooting with any kind of firearm.

So to protect the people of Maryland they pass and uphold a law that doesn't take away any guns, instead of addressing preventing the criminals from using handguns that kill 91 times the number of people killed by all types of rifles or addressing knives that were used to kill 18 times the number of people killed by someone with a rifle.

I bet they're real proud today.

They're super proud. You better believe it. Some of their electorate are just stupid. And some of them are incredibly savvy.

The savvy ones are trying to create a precedent and a larger movement. They're proud. The stupid ones are patsies and believe they're doing something for the greater good. They're proud, too.

^^Nice stats. Thanks!

[Rumline]

This is horse****. It's like liberals know they have a lock on the courts and are coming up with the dumbest rulings possible just to piss off conservatives.

I don't just mean the decision to uphold vs overturn, but especially the "reasoning" in the decisions.

[Skip]

I just noticed that there is no grandfather clause for the Maryland law. Owners who did not register them before 1994 must get rid of them.

How can experienced jurists claim that they can't assume 2nd Amendment protections to "weapons of war" when US v Miller does exactly that?

Boom.

[Rucker61]

Ah you beat me to Miller. Desperately hope that SCOTUS takes this case.

After we get the majority.

[DOC]

This is about control not guns.
Can you imagine if they said you can't have books or magazines with too many pages or because they look scary just based on the cover.