Across the country, Democrats are moving to ban popular semiautomatic weapons as well as magazines holding more than 10 or 15 rounds of ammunition. That includes, most recently, Virginia, which has careened to the left after the election of Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D). However, the most chilling such legislation may be in Minnesota, where state Sen. Matt Klein has introduced SF 4290. The law not only bans semiautomatic rifles and magazines with more than ten bullets, but also allows citizens to keep prior purchased weapons only if they agree to allow the police to enter their homes to inspect storage and safety conditions.
The Supreme Court has thus far dodged review of these bans. However, while courts have upheld the bans in places like Illinois, some of us believe that banning weapons like the AR-15 is arbitrary and unconstitutional.
We have a Second Amendment protection of gun ownership, with over 490 million guns in private hands, as of 2022. In 2008, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller, recognizing the Second Amendment as encompassing an individual right to bear arms. The Supreme Court further strengthened the right in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen.
The AR-15 is the most popular gun in America and the number of these guns in private hands is continuing to rise rapidly, with one AR-15 purchased in every five new firearms sales. These AR-15s clearly are not being purchased for armored deer. Many are purchased for personal and home protection; it is also popular for target shooting and hunting. Many gun owners like the AR-15 because it is modular; depending on the model, you can swap out barrels, bolts and high-capacity magazines, or add a variety of accessories. While it does more damage than a typical handgun, it is not the most powerful gun sold in terms of caliber; many guns have equal or greater caliber.
Courts are divided on both the bans on semiautomatic weapons and the magazine bans.
However, what makes the Minnesota law so distinctive is the provision on home inspections. The law states that, in addition to securing state permission or certification for the possession of existing weapons, owners must “agree to allow the appropriate law enforcement agency to inspect the storage of the
device to ensure compliance with this subdivision.”
So new sales of these models would be banned, while existing weapons could only be retained if owners agree to home inspections. It is part of an overall assault on gun rights not just to limit models but to add layers of regulation for those who wish to retain their weapons.
These laws will, hopefully, compel the Court to accept review of these laws and bring greater clarity on the scope of this individual right.
My comment on Bruen is above.
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Trump has made a huge error.
Why would you impose a wide range of Tariffs, then go to War? (Anyone care to answer that – Anyone?)
If he knew all along that there was going to be a War, then you do not impose Tariffs, and at least Dumb-Ass should repealed all the Tariffs now that they have their War.
I don’t see the Macro or Micro economic reasoning in the D.C. Think Tanks reasoning.
Except for Pure Greed of profits made through the Arbitrage of the Markets that line the pockets of Wall Street Brokers.
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Justice Clarence Thomas complained on the record that for decades the Second Amendment was being treated as a second class right. The First Amendment is applied without being chopped up by 50 different State police powers. New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v Bruen that he authored is the down stroke to make that true for the Second Amendment. No more balancing test outside of traditional regulation of what weapons were not allowed when the Constitution was adopted. The Second Amendment speaks to the people bringing their guns to form up a militia to fight. Then it was flintlocks as the state of the art. What do they bring today? The state of the art. What the military fights with. This is not about AR-15 style so-called assault weapons. This is about what we fight wars with. Today and tomorrow. I would suggest that the day will come when Bruen stares right into the eyes of the 1934 National Firearms Act. Licensing, fees, permission to have silencers, fully automatic weapons. Congress in the Big Beautiful Bill cancelled the tax on sound suppressors (silencers), and short barreled (under 18”) rifles and shotguns, and with that the taxing power underpinnings of that statute. Later national gun control legislation relies on the Commerce clause, and the 1934 statute’s retention of the taxing power basis for machine guns. So in the future SCOTUS is likely to be confronted with reconciling the Second Amendment as a human right in light of Bruen, with what remains of the taxing power and the Commerce Clause.
The above is my comment on Minnesota and Bruen
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Freedom of speech includes defamation and does not exclude defamation.
Judges enjoy NO power to modify, amend, or modify by interpretation the Constitution; no power to interpret is conferred by the Constitution.
Laws by Congress abridging defamation violate the 1st Amendment.
Laws by States abridging defamation violate the 14th Amendment.
I would let the inspection begin at the muzzle, then proceed directly to the ammunition.
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Talking about home searches , forget guns, anyone with a mouth like carville should have a home search!!!
How do these people come up with this stuff? Trans children, search your home, no voter ID, open borders, 35 trillion debt, men in women’s sports, same old Trump harangue, lunatic judges, etc. Did I mention they had to have weed? There’s nothing that can be done with this mess bo made. He’s a total fake. Reprogram the computers and John McCain won that election.
What superstition is needed for thou shall not steal, murder, envy, lie, take a day off, produce counterfeit anything. Isn’t that just COMMON SENSE for social order?
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Hopefully, we will get back to a limited reading of the 2nd Amendment. The text states:
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
What the Framers envisioned was a society, like the early Roman Republic, where adult men, mainly farmers, would, at a time of national crisis, put down their ploughs and pick up “arms” (at that time meaning muskets) and join together as a citizen army. It is a beautiful vision, which now is anachronistic. Modern Americans are opposed to militia.
If the text of the 2nd Amendment is treated as binding, the narrow question is whether a type of gun would be ae weapon likely used by our army. Of course there is a subsidiary question: whether the owner of the weapon is a prospective member of a volunteer army.
EM the framers wrote about what they imagined, and it was NOT just about militias.
You can find cites of various framers all over the place brazenly noting that an armed people where the final defense against tyrannical government.
The framers did expect that when the nation needed every man over 16 would get the gun that many states REQUIRED that they own and come to the aide of the country.
They ALSO expected that should the government itself grow tyrannical that the last line of defense against tyranny was an armed populace.
The framers used Rome as a model – but NOT their only model.
I would further note that logically/gramatically the “militia clause” is a justification, it is NOT a limit.
Had the framers intended as you argue they would have written the 2nd amendment as
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the militia to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
They did NOT.
1. The Prefatory Clause
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,”
What it says: This clause identifies a “well-regulated militia” as essential for the safety of a free country.
What it means: Historically, this announced the purpose for which the right was codified—to ensure the effectiveness of a citizen militia that could defend the state and act as a check against a standing army or tyrannical government.
Legal Standing: In the landmark case District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), the Supreme Court ruled that while this clause explains the “why,” it does not limit or expand the scope of the right described in the second part.
2. The Operative Clause
“the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
What it says: This part commands that the people’s right to possess and carry weapons cannot be violated.
What it means: This is the core “command” of the amendment. The Supreme Court interprets “the people” as referring to all individual citizens, not just those in a militia.
Keep: To possess or own weapons.
Bear: To carry weapons for the purpose of “confrontation,” specifically for self-defense.
Turns out that the party that points and keeps screaming “FASCISTS!” is an actual Fascist party.
They embrace the ideology while reserving the name as an epithet without knowing its meaning and without knowing that it applies best to them.
Here is a saying that is trustworhty and true: the Left’s instincts are always totalitarian.
All laws are restrictions, thus you are right. Home inspections does nothing but introduce more oppression.
“It’s the [fascists], stupid!”
– James Carville
James Carville has bats in the belfry.