The Supreme Court on Monday turned away an appeal by a group of gun rights advocates seeking to overturn Maryland’s ban on assault-style rifles and high-capacity magazines under the Second Amendment.
The decision, a major win for gun safety advocates, leaves in place a ruling by the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals which ruled that the state may constitutionally prohibit sale and possession of the weapons.
The state legislation, enacted in 2013 after the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, specifically targets the AR-15 – the most popular rifle in America with 20-30 million in circulation. They are legal in 41 of the 50 states.
And how exactly will an AR-15 help you against a fascistoid government?
Pew! Pew! Pew!
Haven’t you seen Rambo II? The AR-15 is how we won Vietnam.
Through the acute, ballistic application of lead.
The government has much more affective atoms to use against us.
If we’re at that stage, I’m not sure I’d try fighting back.
Same way the IRA, the Vietnamese and the Afghans did.
Same way ak47s did for Afghanistan when they were being invaded