US Judge Upholds Connecticut Gun Control Law

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-judge-upholds-connecticut-gun-control-law-22305314

This is how we win. "Winning" a case in a Federal District court accomplishes nothing. Why "win" a case that affects only one state? Hopefully this will go to the SCOTUS or at minimum the Federal Court of Appeals.

This is one of multiple cases working through the system now...one is before the SCOTUS this year. We need to "lose" all of them until we get to the big show. That is how we get Heller and McDonald decisions.

[lostinblue 1,989]

Covello found that assault weapons are commonly and legally used in Connecticut and elsewhere. But he said the state ban was justified in the interest in public safety.

SCOTUS says you can't ban guns in common use..????

Now the last "3-4 mass shootings ,school shootings involved a shotgun..... these also will be banned for the public safety ...correct

[Sousuke 1,214]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-judge-upholds-connecticut-gun-control-law-22305314

This is how we win. "Winning" a case in a Federal District court accomplishes nothing. Why "win" a case that affects only one state? Hopefully this will go to the SCOTUS or at minimum the Federal Court of Appeals.

This is one of multiple cases working through the system now...one is before the SCOTUS this year. We need to "lose" all of them until we get to the big show. That is how we get Heller and McDonald decisions.

I agree with you, but I wouldn't quote the term winning. Its too Charlie Sheen

[DavenRoxy 1,073]

Covello found that assault weapons are commonly and legally used in Connecticut and elsewhere. But he said the state ban was justified in the interest in public safety.

SCOTUS says you can't ban guns in common use..????

Now the last "3-4 mass shootings ,school shootings involved a shotgun..... these also will be banned for the public safety ...correct

Assault weapon. If I hit you with a baseball bat, a rock, a stick, a skillet... don't those then become assault weapons?

I love how the term is used with little to no definition. A black powder rifle is an assault rifle if I fire it at someone. A semi-auto 5.56mm no more so.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Covello found that assault weapons are commonly and legally used in Connecticut and elsewhere. But he said the state ban was justified in the interest in public safety.

SCOTUS says you can't ban guns in common use..????

Now the last "3-4 mass shootings ,school shootings involved a shotgun..... these also will be banned for the public safety ...correct

Some will try. Why not? In the 60's and 70's it was the "Saturday Night Special" that they wanted to ban. "Not all handguns, just "Saturday Night Specials" . Translation "all handguns" Didn't work Then the big money drug dealing and smuggling started and the bad guys decided to start using GOOD guns and then they wanted to ban those. "Assault Rifles" they call them. They had been around for about 70 years but they just "discovered" them.

Then Joe Biden, VP (Democrat) said "Buy a shotgun" and it seems everyone has!

[JohnR! 5,495]

Assault weapon. If I hit you with a baseball bat, a rock, a stick, a skillet... don't those then become assault weapons?

I love how the term is used with little to no definition. A black powder rifle is an assault rifle if I fire it at someone. A semi-auto 5.56mm no more so.

Isn't taking a term with little or no definition how we got to this point? We went from 'arms' in the 2nd Amendment to semi-automatic rifles and all sorts of paraphernalia that belongs in a combat zone. Goose. Gander.

[Sousuke 1,214]

Assault weapon. If I hit you with a baseball bat, a rock, a stick, a skillet... don't those then become assault weapons?

I love how the term is used with little to no definition. A black powder rifle is an assault rifle if I fire it at someone. A semi-auto 5.56mm no more so.

Assault weapon equals black and scary….everyone knows that!

[Sousuke 1,214]

Isn't taking a term with little or no definition how we got to this point? We went from 'arms' in the 2nd Amendment to semi-automatic rifles and all sorts of paraphernalia that belongs in a combat zone. Goose. Gander.

Generally speaking I believe the interpretation is that to bear arms, its something you can carry. That being said, artillery for most of US history was legal in private hands (and still is in some states).