Federal Judge Upholds Massachusetts Assault Weapons Ban
BY Herschel Smith6 years, 7 months ago
From Mack and other readers, this.
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit on Friday challenging Massachusetts’s ban on assault weapons.
U.S. District Judge William Young said in his ruling that the firearms and large magazines banned by the state in 1998 are “not within the scope of the personal right to ‘bear Arms’ under the Second Amendment.”
The features of a military-style rifle are “designed and intended to be particularly suitable for combat rather than sporting applications,” Young wrote.
Massachusetts was within its rights since the ban passed directly through elected representatives, Young decided.
“Other states are equally free to leave them unregulated and available to their law-abiding citizens,” Young wrote. “These policy matters are simply not of constitutional moment. Americans are not afraid of bumptious, raucous, and robust debate about these matters. We call it democracy.”
Well, I have a friend who hunts hogs in Georgia with a 6.5 Creedmoor AR-10, and the only reason I don’t hunt hogs in Georgia with an AR is because I haven’t been invited to go. Hogs, he tells me, are tough critters and aren’t persuaded with single shots. They often have to be shot multiple times.
But of course, that’s not the point, is it? The point is that the second amendment is there for the amelioration of tyranny. Because the politicians in Massachusetts are tyrants, they don’t want their subjects to have proper means of combat. The judge is a tyrant too. He told us so in his ruling.