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Is there a Second Amendment right to semiautomatic rifles?
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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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MarkHamTownsend
(6/25/2016)
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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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PHORTO
(6/25/2016)
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"[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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| There are other things so clearly out of the power of Congress, that the bare recital of them is sufficient, I mean the "...rights of bearing arms for defence, or for killing game..." These things seem to have been inserted among their objections, merely to induce the ignorant to believe that Congress would have a power over such objects and to infer from their being refused a place in the Constitution, their intention to exercise that power to the oppression of the people. —ALEXANDER WHITE (1787) |
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