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However, Scalia was careful not to strike down all gun laws. "The Second Amendment does not protect those weapons not typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes, such as short-barreled shotguns," Scalia wrote. Additionally, he said, "nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms." Licensing requirements were also held to be constitutional.
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Yep. Sawed off shotguns would be considered unusual. No real need for a sawed off shotgun.
No one makes one like that either, and if they do, it would be a rarity.
An M-16 however is not unusual in that millions of them are in existence and they were manufactured that way.
-S
PS. A sawed off shotgun may even be in question:
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In dissent, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote, "The decision threatens to throw into doubt the constitutionality of gun laws throughout the United States."
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