Brett Kavanaugh wants to make it even easier for gunmen to obtain assault rifles
On Saturday, a man in El Paso, Texas, walked into a Walmart and murdered 20 people. He used an AK-47, a kind of assault rifle. Less than a day later, another man in Dayton, Ohio, murdered nine people in a bar. That shooting lasted less than a minute, but the gunman reportedly was able to rapidly attack his victims in part because he used a high-capacity weapon.
Meanwhile, if President Donald Trumps most recent appointment to the Supreme Court gets his way, both assault rifles and high-capacity magazines will soon enjoy special constitutional protection. It is likely, moreover, that Justice Brett Kavanaugh has the five votes he needs to make this happen.
In 2008, not long after the Supreme Court struck down its much stronger gun regulations, the District of Columbia passed an emergency law that, among other things, banned assault rifles and high-capacity magazines within the District. The law was challenged, and the challenge eventually reached a panel of three Republican appointees on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Two of those judges upheld the law.
The third judge was Kavanaugh. In his dissent, Kavanaugh called for a sweeping expansion of the Second Amendment, beyond even what his two Republican colleagues were willing to endorse. Regarding assault rifles, the future Trump appointee argued that these weapons should enjoy the same nearly unassailable level of level of constitutional protection the Supreme Court afforded to handguns in its 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller.
https://thinkprogress.org/brett-kavanaugh-wants-to-make-it-even-easier-for-gunmen-to-obtain-assault-rifles-0291eca41d17/
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True Dough
(17,331 posts)All of 'em. They're going in the wrong direction.
Backseat Driver
(4,399 posts)first order of business for the new govenor. Geesh!
Moscow Mitch, obviously approves: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/ky-legislature/2019/03/12/what-know-new-kentucky-concealed-carry-law/3141601002/
Ohio Governor Dewine's first order of business: https://www.ohio.com/news/20190311/new-ohio-gov-mike-dewine-signs-first-bill-into-law---on-guns/1
dchill
(38,546 posts)It's their calling. They're BENT.
demigoddess
(6,645 posts)of the US being shot on a daily basis.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,049 posts)or nerve-gas or nuclear weapons? If all "arms" deserve Constitutional protection, just where does it end?
hack89
(39,171 posts)Ordnance is not arms.
BigmanPigman
(51,632 posts)for protection, even when they take a shower at home, they MAY do something about gun control but I sincerely doubt it.
Midnight Writer
(21,803 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,632 posts)since I know who they are deep down in their core (they don't have souls). They will do NOTHING...it is their GOP motto. They must keep raking in the NRA $$$$ and Russian $$$$$. They are not patriotic, they are un- Amerikkkan.