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In It to Win It

(8,252 posts)
Wed May 11, 2022, 07:24 PM May 2022

9th Circuit: California's under-21 gun sales ban unconstitutional

AP via Yahoo News

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A U.S. appeals court ruled Wednesday that California’s ban on the sale of semiautomatic weapons to adults under 21 is unconstitutional.

In a 2-1 ruling, a panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Wednesday the law violates the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms and a San Diego judge should have blocked what it called “an almost total ban on semiautomatic centerfire rifles” for young adults. “America would not exist without the heroism of the young adults who fought and died in our revolutionary army," Judge Ryan Nelson wrote. "Today we reaffirm that our Constitution still protects the right that enabled their sacrifice: the right of young adults to keep and bear arms.”
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SoonerPride

(12,286 posts)
1. Just give up trying to regulate guns.
Wed May 11, 2022, 07:29 PM
May 2022

It’s a lost cause.

Let the guns flow like water and the streets run with blood.

That’s what the country clearly wants and deserves.

jimfields33

(15,803 posts)
9. 9th circuit is the most liberal
Wed May 11, 2022, 08:09 PM
May 2022

I’m sure they studied the laws and made a knowledgable decision. Although I don’t like it.

dsc

(52,162 posts)
10. This panel had two Trump appointees who voted for the decision and one non Trump appointee who
Wed May 11, 2022, 08:10 PM
May 2022

didn't.

jimfields33

(15,803 posts)
15. Hopefully they don't take the case
Wed May 11, 2022, 08:29 PM
May 2022

Especially since it’s so late in their schedule they may already have all the cases. June 30th is the end of term.

Samrob

(4,298 posts)
2. I jus wish the courts would allow the English language grammar prevail.
Wed May 11, 2022, 07:33 PM
May 2022

The 2nd Amendment does not say what the RW alleges it says. The context appear to be irrelevant and so does grammar.

BarackTheVote

(938 posts)
5. Ah, yes, because, as we all know,
Wed May 11, 2022, 07:38 PM
May 2022

In that nearly 250-years-ago war, the teenage soldiers were all packing semiautomatic rifles

Jerry2144

(2,101 posts)
6. They were
Wed May 11, 2022, 07:43 PM
May 2022

Didn't you know they kept the semi-auto guns in the cockpit next to them when they flew? They often landed in hostile territory and had to be armed to repel the Redcoats.

BarackTheVote

(938 posts)
7. Oh, duh! How could I forget--
Wed May 11, 2022, 07:46 PM
May 2022

about the heroic defense of Boston International Airport against Churchill’s Unterseeboot battalion?

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