SCOTUS may address state assault weapons bans

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Merrick Garland may be on the Court if they decide to hear this during the next term. :)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court may weigh in this week on gun control, an issue smoldering again following the June 12 Orlando massacre, with the justices due to decide whether to hear a challenge by gun rights advocates to assault weapon bans in two states. The Connecticut and New York laws prohibit semiautomatic weapons like the one used by the gunman who fatally shot 49 people at a gay night club in Orlando in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

The Supreme Court will announce as soon as Monday whether it will hear the challenge brought by gun rights groups and individual firearms owners asserting that the laws violate the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment guarantee of the right to bear arms...

Connecticut said its law targets firearms disproportionately used in gun crime, "particularly the most heinous forms of gun violence." It said people in Connecticut still can legally own more than 1,000 types of handguns, rifles and shotguns...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/supreme-court-may-action-state-assault-weapon-bans-121239102.html
 
Cyanide snacks will help massacre perpetrators avoid falling further foul of the law by using guns on themselves.
 
christiefan915 said:
Merrick Garland may be on the Court if they decide to hear this during the next term. :)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court may weigh in this week on gun control, an issue smoldering again following the June 12 Orlando massacre, with the justices due to decide whether to hear a challenge by gun rights advocates to assault weapon bans in two states. The Connecticut and New York laws prohibit semiautomatic weapons like the one used by the gunman who fatally shot 49 people at a gay night club in Orlando in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

The Supreme Court will announce as soon as Monday whether it will hear the challenge brought by gun rights groups and individual firearms owners asserting that the laws violate the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment guarantee of the right to bear arms...

Connecticut said its law targets firearms disproportionately used in gun crime, "particularly the most heinous forms of gun violence." It said people in Connecticut still can legally own more than 1,000 types of handguns, rifles and shotguns...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/supreme-court-may-action-state-assault-weapon-bans-121239102.html
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N.Y hasn't banned assault weapons per se.

I see a 4-4 ruling, as we will with virtually every controversial issue until Hillary is elected.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NY_SAFE_Act
 
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