Judge rejects attempt to temporarily block Connecticut's landmark gun law passed after Sandy Hook

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Source: ABC News

HARTFORD, Conn. -- A federal judge on Thursday rejected a request to temporarily block Connecticut's landmark 2013 gun control law, passed after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, until a gun rights group's lawsuit against the statute has concluded. U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven ruled the National Association for Gun Rights has not shown that the state's ban on certain assault weapons and large-capacity ammunition magazines, or LCMs, violates the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms or that such weapons are commonly bought and used for self-defense.

Connecticut officials “have submitted persuasive evidence that assault weapons and LCMs are more often sought out for their militaristic characteristics than for self-defense, that these characteristics make the weapons disproportionately dangerous to the public based on their increased capacity for lethality, and that assault weapons and LCMs are more often used in crimes and mass shootings than in self-defense,” Arterton said.

The judge added that “the Nation has a longstanding history and tradition of regulating those aspects of the weapons or manners of carry that correlate with rising firearm violence.” The National Association for Gun Rights, based in Loveland, Colorado, criticized the ruling and vowed an appeal. “We’re used to seeing crazy judicial acrobatics to reason the Second Amendment into oblivion, but this ruling is extreme even for leftist courts,” it said in a statement. “This is an outrageous slap in the face to law-abiding gun owners and the Constitution alike.”

The 2013 law was passed after a gunman with an AR-15-style rifle killed 20 children and six educators at the Sandy Hook school in Newtown in December 2012. The law added more than 100 firearms, including the Bushmaster rifle used in the shooting, to the state's assault weapons ban and prohibited ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 rounds.

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[republianmushroom]

1. I like it

[tonekat]

2. Me too

CT is pretty blue but there are bands of chuckleheads that love to make comments in the online "Patch" news source. They'd never have their poison published in anything widely read.

[cstanleytech]

3. You know it occurs to me that the States might be able to get the gun problem under control

might be to form a State militia.
Then ban the ownership of most guns (other than actual hunting ones) by people unless they join the militia which will have strict requirements to join and remain a member of.
For example one of the requirements would be that all their guns must be stored in a secure area where they cannot be gotten at by children with a random inspection to ensure they are abiding by it once every 3 to 4 years.
Also they cannot be convicted for a felony nor have a restraining order on them from an a court for domestic violence or stalking.
They also cannot carry the weapons on them regularly.
They may take the weapons to a licenced shooting range for a max of 2 times a month but they must be unloaded while transporting them.
Furthermore they must attend yearly training with the militia which will provide training and testing to make sure they are proficient with their weapons as well as knowledgeable about the proper methods to secure their weapons.
Doing it that way would make it difficult for SCOTUS to toss the law since the Constitution specifically says it's for a well regulated militia which the state would be providing.

[SouthernDem4ever]

4. that's what state police or the national guard is there to do

I fear new state militias will end up being controlled by radicals and mobs. A quicker march to Gilead.

[cstanleytech]

6. The militia would be entirely different as it would be independent of the Federal government and run

by the State alone.

[SouthernDem4ever]

8. Most states already have this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_defense_force

[CTyankee]

7. This sounds like a good idea and I'd like to hear/explore more about it. I love my state and would

be fine with such a militia.

It would provide an updated militia service that is needed. This has modern day possibilities here in CT. And I love the point you make about its constitutionality!

[Bayard]

5. Good!

A sane judge is so refreshing these days.