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A shooting late Sunday evening at a concert in Las Vegas killed more than 50 people and injured more than 500, according to law enforcement officials. The latest mass shooting sparked questions among readers about what laws are in place in Iowa. While the federal government has some jurisdiction over gun regulations, states also have freedom to write their own gun laws. |
Comment by:
PHORTO
(10/3/2017)
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"State law does not overrule federal law."
Inside any state where state law prohibits the possession of automatic weapons, it does. The weapons are legal according to federal law, but they are still illegal inside that state. |
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For, in principle, there is no difference between a law prohibiting the wearing of concealed arms, and a law forbidding the wearing such as are exposed; and if the former be unconstitutional, the latter must be so likewise. But it should not be forgotten, that it is not only a part of the right that is secured by the constitution; it is the right entire and complete, as it existed at the adoption of the constitution; and if any portion of that right be impaired, immaterial how small the part may be, and immaterial the order of time at which it be done, it is equally forbidden by the constitution. [Bliss vs. Commonwealth, 12 Ky. (2 Litt.) 90, at 92, and 93, 13 Am. Dec. 251 (1822) |
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