Just read a bit of it and thought the Heller case might be used in CT today as they attempt to approve a very sweeping new law on arms.
But yes, DC was way over their boundries for the 1975 banning what they did. The 2A was basically ignored. I will read more. Very interesting.
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The Breyer dissent also objected to the "common use" distinction used by the majority to distinguish handguns from machineguns: "But what sense does this approach make? According to the majority’s reasoning, if Congress and the States lift restrictions on the possession and use of machineguns, and people buy machineguns to protect their homes, the Court will have to reverse course and find that the Second Amendment does, in fact, protect the individual self-defense-related right to possess a machine-gun...There is no basis for believing that the Framers intended such circular reasoning."[50]
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