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    | Is there a Second Amendment right to semiautomatic rifles? Submitted by: 
			
Mark A. Taff
 Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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    | Meet the Press host Chuck Todd did a double-take after House Speaker Paul Ryan made a claim about semiautomatic rifles, which was the type of gun used in the mass shooting in Orlando days earlier.
 
 "I grew up hunting with Remington 7400s, which are semiautomatic rifles. Cosmetically they look different, they function exactly the same," the Wisconsin Republican said on the June 19, 2016 edition of the show.
 
 "So, look, we can go into all of these issues other than to say, people have a constitutional right to bear arms. People have a constitutional right to have semiautomatic rifles."
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    | Comment by: 
     MarkHamTownsend
     (6/25/2016) |  
    | Not a totally bad article.....but the 2A term "regulate" applied to the militia; "a well regulated militia...."   which meant "well trained." Why anyone should think "well regulated" means that the  government can ban some rifles is beyond any logic.
 The second part of the amendment prohibits it!
 Logic dictates you cannot have a coherent statement that says 'both A and not A' at the same time.
 
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    | Comment by: 
     PHORTO
     (6/25/2016) |  
    | "[T]he Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding." 
 Majority Opinion, D.C. v. Heller (2008)
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