James B ToyOne of my Mental Notes has gotten loose. Read it here: https://mrtoysmentalnotes.blogspot.com/2025/06/does-tradition-trump-public-safety.html
NonilexThe study, published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics, examined the 13-year period after the June 2010 #SCOTUS ruling that the #SecondAmendment, which protects the right to bear arms, applies to state & local #GunControl laws. The decision effectively limited the ability of #state & #local #governments to regulate #firearms.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2834530
#Children #death #PublicHealth #suicide #homicide #crime #GunViolence #guns #law
Widdershins Smith 🐘Something something 2A something a well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed something
Maybe time to actually use it for its intended purpose? 🤔
progressive.patriotz
Jack Drago - Vast Country HypnosisI believe in reasonable regulation of the right to bear arms; but days like today make me glad we have a #SecondAmendment.
WINGS_radioBREAKING: High Court Skips AR-15 Ban Constitutionality For Now
The #US #SupremeCourt announced Monday that it won't weigh in yet on the debate over whether #AR-15 s and other #semiautomatic #rifles are protected under the #SecondAmendment or potentially subject to state #bans due to their military-like capabilities.
#consider [via Law360]
The #US #SupremeCourt announced Monday that it won't weigh in yet on the debate over whether #AR-15 s and other #semiautomatic #rifles are protected under the #SecondAmendment or potentially subject to state #bans due to their military-like capabilities.
#consider [via Law360]
“We decline to wield the #Constitution to declare that #military-style armaments, which have become primary instruments of #MassKilling & #terrorist attacks in the #UnitedStates, are beyond the reach of our nation’s democratic processes,” Judge Wilkinson added.
#law #SCOTUS #SecondAmendment #WMD #SemiautomaticRifles #AR15 #GunControl
The #law’s ban on what critics call #AssaultWeapons ban did not violate the #SecondAmendment because rapid-firing long guns “are #military-style weapons designed for sustained #combat operations that are ill-suited & disproportionate to the need for self-defense,” wrote Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan.
Justice Brett M. #Kavanaugh, who could have supplied the fourth vote needed to add the case to the court’s docket, issued a statement saying the question was significant & could soon warrant review but that he hoped additional opinions from lower courts could assist the justices on the issue. He wrote that #SCOTUS “should & presumably will address the #AR15 issue soon, in the next term or two.”
“I doubt we would sit idly by if lower courts were to so subvert our precedents involving any other constitutional right,” [ummm what?] he wrote. “Until we are vigilant in enforcing it, the right to bear arms will remain ‘a second-class right.’” [#hypocrisy]
Justices #Alito & #Gorsuch said they too would have heard the case but did not provide reasons.