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jmg257

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12. While NY US Court of Appeals used "intermediate scrutiny" to uphold NY & CTs ban.
Sat Feb 6, 2016, 08:37 PM
Feb 2016

CONCLUSION
2 To summarize, we hold as follows:
3 (1) The core prohibitions by New York and Connecticut of
4 assault weapons and large‐capacity magazines do not
5 violate the Second Amendment.  
6 (a) We assume that the majority of the prohibited
7 conduct falls within the scope of Second
8 Amendment protections. The statutes are
9 appropriately evaluated under the constitutional
10 standard of “intermediate scrutiny”—that is,
11 whether they are “substantially related to the
12 achievement of an important governmental
13 interest.”

14 (b) Because the prohibitions are substantially related
15 to the important governmental interests of public
16 safety and crime reduction, they pass
17 constitutional muster



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