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Gun Control & RKBA

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AndyS

(14,559 posts)
Sun Jul 2, 2023, 08:05 PM Jul 2023

Supreme Court to decide if judges have gone too far on gun laws [View all]

https://www.newsandsentinel.com/news/local-news/2023/07/supreme-court-to-decide-if-judges-have-gone-too-far-on-gun-laws/

In the past year, judges also have struck down federal laws barring people from having guns if they have been charged with serious crimes or use marijuana. Other rulings have called into question a federal ban on possessing guns with serial numbers removed, the prohibition on licensed federal firearms dealers selling handguns to young adults under 21 and Delaware’s ban on the possession of homemade “ghost guns.”
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The case now before the court involves Zackey Rahimi, whose conviction on possessing guns while subject to a restraining order was thrown out by a panel of three Republican appointees on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Rahimi was involved in five shootings over two months in and around Arlington, Texas, U.S. Circuit Judge Cory Wilson noted. When police identified Rahimi as a suspect in the shootings and showed up at his home with a search warrant, Rahimi admitted both to having guns in the house and being subject to a domestic violence restraining order that prohibited gun possession, Wilson wrote.

But though “hardly a model citizen,” Rahimi did not lose his constitutional right to have guns, Wilson concluded. The law at issue could not be justified by looking to history, he wrote for a unanimous panel.


Hardly a model citizen. That's one way to put it. Another way to put is "dead people don't trump my second amendment rights". Yet another way to put it is "NRA and NSSF $$ out weigh mere human rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness".

I have wondered if some of these lower court rulings that are clearly batshit crazy were made just to tell the SCOTUS that Bruen is batshit crazy. So now the SCOTUS will re-look at Bruen and either confirm that they made a fucked up decision or confirm that they really are batshit crazy.

Not takin' any bets either way.
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