RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Maryland’s ban on assault weapons and large-capacity gun magazines is back before a federal appeals court.
A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond raised concerns about the constitutionality of the restrictions in February. The panel sent a lawsuit challenging those provisions back to a judge who upheld them and ordered her to take another look using a more rigorous legal standard.
The state appealed that 2-1 decision to the full 15-member appeals court, which will hear arguments Wednesday.
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What say U gov Hogan ?
Where are you Gov. Hogan?
Dave T: Agreed ! Mr. Hogan, where are you? The governor needs to show support for the second amendment ! Mr. Hogan, why do you acquiesce with the current gun laws? Do you support them? Your actions are speaking louder than your words and I'm not impressed with what I'm seeing. No response is a response.
Executive Order to overturn prior legislation?
Hogan wants to get re-elected. Democrats voted for him and won't support him again if he changes the gun laws.
"U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake upheld the ban, but... did not apply the proper legal standard." What the article doesn't tell you is that...
She ruled that just because an AR-15 'looks' like a banned military weapon., it should be banned also.
"“If machine guns were not banned and were in the same use as AR-15s, could they be banned?” Judge Dennis Shedd asked." This statement should show, even the most casual observer, how illiterate this man is of the issue. He, too, has grouped a common semi-automatic rifle with an autofire military weapon. It actually sounds like Judge Shedd isn't, at all, thinking "In common use".
"Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III... seemed to be suggesting that any gun that can be kept at home is out of government’s reach, no matter how dangerous the weapon. Excuse me judge.., where is the word 'dangerous' used in the 2nd Amendment? "“Your position is so broad that it comes to a point of disabling legislatures from their core function of protecting citizens,” Wilkinson said." Rewriting Constitutional Amendments is not 'protecting citizens' Judge Wilkinson.
I don't know if it's just this MSM newsrag's agenda but these two judges seem anti-2nd Amendment to me. And, are dredging up already conceded points unnecessarily, probably with motive.
"shall not be infringed"
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