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MO: Limit long guns' potential for a high casualty count
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Mark A. Taff
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There is no need for a long gun to have a magazine that holds more than five rounds and no need for the magazine to be detachable. Magazines should be reloaded one round at a time through the breech. If long guns were limited in this manner, it would greatly diminish the potential for a high casualty count when the next disturbed person decides to start shooting at a large gathering with a semiautomatic rifle. |
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PHORTO
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Arms "in common use" that have "some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia" and/or are "any part of the ordinary military equipment" are within the ambit of Second Amendment protection, per U.S. v. Miller (1939)
And this protection extends to design components and ammunition, as the criteria established supra. Militia applications are, de facto, military applications, and the Court stipulated that the "efficiency of a well regulated militia" confers protection.
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