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IA: DMPS Board Adopts Resolution Asking for Assault Weapon Ban
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On Tuesday, the Des Moines Public School Board voted on a resolution aimed at curbing gun violence. That resolution included a request that lawmakers ban the manufacture, sale, and possession of assault-style weapons. “We're not asking for the second amendment to go away…we do a number of things in our schools to keep our kids safe and to keep our staff safe, but even if we do all those things, someone enters with an assault rifle, that's not going to have a good ending no matter what,” said Des Moines School Board Vice-Chair Cindy Elsbernd.
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Per U.S. v. Miller (1939), so-called "assault weapons" are within the ambit of Second Amendment protection, which provides that arms in common use that have militia utility or are any part of the ordinary military equipment and could contribute to the common defense are those the amendment was intended to guarantee. As a matter of fact, AR-15s and the like are textbook examples of this description.
Thus said the SCOTUS regarding the types of arms definitively within the ambit of Second Amendment protection. Militia weapons. SPECIFICALLY.
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