http://www.gunsamerica.com/blog/federal-...amendment/

Oh, what a surprise, it's a woman.

Quote:In what was a difficult blow for gun owners in the Free State, on Tuesday, a federal judge upheld Maryland’s new gun-control law signed into law by Gov. Martin O’Malley in the wake of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

In her 47-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake said that the law, which expanded the ban on so-called assault weapons, was constitutional because modern sporting rifles “fall outside Second Amendment protection as dangerous and unusual.”

Liberals will always find a way to make the Constitution say what they want it to say.

This judge is going to get spanked by the appeals court.

(08-18-2014 08:26 AM)DrTorch Wrote:  http://www.gunsamerica.com/blog/federal-...amendment/

Oh, what a surprise, it's a woman.

Quote:In what was a difficult blow for gun owners in the Free State, on Tuesday, a federal judge upheld Maryland’s new gun-control law signed into law by Gov. Martin O’Malley in the wake of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

In her 47-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake said that the law, which expanded the ban on so-called assault weapons, was constitutional because modern sporting rifles “fall outside Second Amendment protection as dangerous and unusual.”

Well, looks like all the gun violence in Baltimore and PG County is about to end. How heroic of her.

I always find it amusing which guns get banned and which ones don't. It really seems like they just try to ban the ones that look dangerous and not the ones that can really do some damage.

I've never seen any such criteria, "dangerous and unusual."

The judge did not make anything up. As she noted in her opinion, the "dangerous and unusual" restriction was recognized as legitimate by the Supreme Court in Heller.

Quote:We also recognize another important limitation on the right to keep and carry arms. Miller said, as we have explained, that the sorts of weapons protected were those “in common use at the time.” 307 U. S., at 179. We think that limitation is fairly supported by the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of “dangerous and unusual weapons.”

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/07-290.ZO.html

The phrase is dicta in Heller.

(08-18-2014 10:38 AM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  The phrase is dicta in Heller.

shhhhh....
Don't let that little fact get in the way of eroding the Constitution.

"shall not be infringed" really means except when gov't says different.

An AR-15 is a Modern Sporting Rifle....=.....Musket. Keep it in context.