Justice Stevens: Second Amendment is ‘no obstacle’ to banning automatic weapons

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19. If he said that, he is ignorant

of the fact of those cases, and the definition of "automatic weapon", and ignorant of the extreme numbers (tens of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions) of "semi-automatic" firearms exactly like the weapons used, typically "possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes".

The Miller nonsense is also nuttery. If we could find an example of a championship game scheduled, where one of the teams perished in a plane crash, the remaining team claiming victory by default, and continuing to tout the victory 80 years later.. No. Body. Showed. Up. To. Argue. Miller's. Side...Miller. Was. DEAD. When. Argument (singular). Was. Heard. The Miller decision was a default decision...nobody was there to prove that short barreled shotguns were in fact used commonly at the time for lawful purposes...they were very commonly used by woodland hunters and for home defense. By Miller's standard, “Miller was generally understood to limiting the scope of the Second Amendment to the uses of arms that were related to military activities,” , this would be a realistic argument against the 1934 NFA..and would make not only semi-automatic weapons but also automatic weapons completely protected by the 2nd.

Curious how much Brady's benefactor (singular) paid Stevens for this engagement.