#semiautomaticrifles — Public Fediverse posts
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…“Their decisions to deny certificates of registration for commonly possessed semiautomatic firearms runs afoul of binding Supreme Court precedent & therefore trample the Second Amendment rights of #law abiding citizens.”prosecutors claimed.
Prosecutors cited a 2008 #SCOTUS ruling that held that people may possess firearms in their homes for purposes such as #SelfDefense, invalidating a #handgun ban that #DC had in place at the time.
[#SemiautomaticRifles ARE NOT handguns]
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#DOJ sues #DC over ban of #AR15s & other #SemiautomaticGuns
The suit incorrectly claims that the registration restrictions on semi-automatic rifles in DC is an “unconstitutional ban.” In a lawsuit Monday, #Trump admin attys chastised the city for its code banning most #SemiautomaticRifles & certain #firearms from being registered with the #police, making possession of those weapons illegal.
#HomeRule #law
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/12/22/justice-department-sues-dc-ar-15-rifle/ -
“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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“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.
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“I would not wait to decide whether the government can ban the most popular rifle in America,” #ClarenceThomas wrote. “That question is of critical importance to tens of millions of law-abiding #AR15 owners throughout the country. We have avoided deciding it for a full decade.”
He added that the court’s commitment to the #SecondAmendment was inadequate.
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The Maryland law was enacted in 2013 in response to the #MassShooting at #SandyHook Elementary School in Connecticut the previous year. It banned many semiautomatic rifles & imposed a 10-round limit on #GunMagazines.
In dissent, Justice #ClarenceThomas said the court should have considered the question, which the justices have repeatedly declined to resolve.
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#SCOTUS announced on Monday that it would NOT hear a major #SecondAmendment challenge to a Maryland #law banning #SemiautomaticRifles like the #AR15. As is the court’s practice, its brief order gave no reasons.
The move, over the objections of 3 conservative justices, let the ban stand & reflected the court’s intermittent engagement with #GunRights. It has issued only 3 significant #2A decisions since recognizing an individual right to own #guns in 2008.
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This device is designed only for killing a lot of people quickly.
#Trump's admin agreed on Friday to permit the sale & possession of devices that let gun enthusiasts convert #SemiautomaticRifles into weapons that can shoot as fast as #MachineGuns.
The agreement came in a #settlement announced by the #DOJ ending lawsuits brought under Trump's Democratic predecessor, Joe #Biden, after his admin banned certain "forced reset triggers."
#law #GunViolence #guns #extremism
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-reversing-biden-allows-forced-reset-triggers-guns-2025-05-17/ -
CW: Long thread/6
#10yrsago Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection https://memex.craphound.com/2013/09/16/rewire-digital-cosmopolitans-in-the-age-of-connection/
#10yrsago #PrinceJefri of #Brunei: how to blow billions https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/07/prince-jefri-201107
#5yrsago AMA study: shooters armed with #SemiautomaticRifles kill twice as many people https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2702134
#5yrsago More #googlers are quitting over the company’s plan to launch a censored, surveilling search product in China https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/google-project-dragonfly-employees-quitting
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