Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Now that Scalia has died, are gun-lovers feeling... [View all]jmg257
(11,996 posts)Of course along with all the associated "hi-cap" mags, and other accoutrements.
Those obviously being IDEAL weapons related to and helping the efficiency of the militias...
"On March 30, 1939, the Supreme Court heard the Miller case. Attorneys for the United States argued four points:
The NFA is intended as a revenue-collecting measure and therefore within the authority of the Department of the Treasury.
The defendants transported the shotgun from Oklahoma to Arkansas, and therefore used it in interstate commerce.
The Second Amendment protects only the ownership of military-type weapons appropriate for use in an organized militia.
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"The Court cannot take judicial notice that a shotgun having a barrel less than 18 inches long has today any reasonable relation to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia, and therefore cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees to the citizen the right to keep and bear such a weapon."
If Miller was carrying a BAR instead of a SOS, sure seems the NFA would have had some changes.