SCOTUS rules 5/4 - Keep Your Guns

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Originally Posted by Molon Labe

I apologize, the correct term was "common use," not "ordinary use." There is room for interpretation as to what is "common" and what is not, but Justice Scalia has all but declared that the M-16 is not in common use. So the few people that pay the draconian taxes and own them in states that allow them too is apparently not enough to make any of those uses "common" enough for the weapon to be protected.

Quite the contrary. The M-16 has millions in use - not even thousands - millions! And i bet there are are least 100K in civi hands out there - fully automatic!

And if you read the 2nd A, you will see that it specifically calls out what guns are in military use, which means we should have access to M-16's if we want.

Anyway on another subject, I figured you Brits would get a kick out of this:

During World War II, many NRA members sent their privately owned firearms to the people of England to help defend against the Nazi onslaught. This effort was necessary because the British populace had been disarmed by Draconian gun control laws.

-S

PS. i find this interesting too:

A survey of prison inmates indicated that only 0.7% had obtained their firearms from gun shows. ("Firearm Use by Offenders," Bureau of Justice Statistics, November 2000)