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Originally Posted by Molon Labe
Issues of expectations aside, I find this quite troubling. If not for NFA34, weapons such as the M-16 would be in ordinary use by civilians today. The Court's way of defining "arms" allows the tail to wag the dog. All the government has to do to ban other weapons in the future to target weapons not in ordinary use (perhaps .50cal rifles) or to regulate certain weapons with restrictions such that most people stop using them, making the weapons eligible to be banned.
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Possibly, but what defines ordinary use? Would not hunting, or home defense, or shooting competitions, or vermin control, or even backyard target plinking qualify as an ordinary civilian use?