National SCOTUS may hear on Snope v. Brown ('assault weapons' including the AR-15)

[ATCclears]

The Supreme Court has heard two major Second Amendment cases in three years, but no rest for the weary: This month the Justices are expected to consider whether to take Snope v. Brown, an appeal challenging a Maryland law that bans the sale and possession of "assault weapons." That includes the AR-15 style, sometimes called America's most popular rifle.

The Fourth Circuit Appeals Court upheld the law this summer in a 10-5 en banc ruling. Guns such as the AR-15, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III writes in that opinion, "fall outside the ambit of protection offered by the Second Amendment because, in essence, they are military-style weapons designed for sustained combat operations that are ill-suited and disproportionate to the need for self-defense." He says Maryland's law "fits comfortably within our nation's tradition of firearms regulation," as a state regulation of "excessively dangerous weapons."

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/ar-15-rifles-fourth-circuit-bianchi-v-brown-supreme-court-second-amendment-0590ae4c?st=2zUExC&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

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[PiratePast40]

William Kirk did a piece on this yesterday. He goes into it a little deeper and explains why this is an important case. Wish they would take up magazine restrictions and permit to exercise a protected right.

 

[CamoDeafie]

The Fourth Circuit Appeals Court upheld the law this summer in a 10-5 en banc ruling. Guns such as the AR-15, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III writes in that opinion, "fall outside the ambit of protection offered by the Second Amendment because, in essence, they are military-style weapons designed for sustained combat operations that are ill-suited and disproportionate to the need for self-defense." He says Maryland's law "fits comfortably within our nation's tradition of firearms regulation," as a state regulation of "excessively dangerous weapons."

"Excessively dangerous"?


One of the most "common" arms... Heller and Bruen already State in no uncertain terms that arms in common use, arms commonly possessed for lawful purposes, are protected

(Regardless of how many is considered "common" 24+ million is dang common)