Supreme Court allows AR-15 ban in this state
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The Supreme Court turned away an appeal by a group of gun-rights advocates seeking to overturn Maryland's ban on AR-15 semi-automatic rifles under the Second Amendment.

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.

  • Jax@sh.itjust.works
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    25 days ago

    Every fascist dictatorship seizes guns. This is not a ‘some do, some don’t’ situation. They all do.

    I also find it very amusing how hard you’ve argued against guns, without ever acknowledging that education and mental health are the real problems that need solutions. You sure were quick to downplay everything else I said, but you didn’t touch that one.

    People like you are transparent. I’m done here, fuck you and the people that agree with you.

    • pahlimur@lemmy.world
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      25 days ago

      Gun people have sanitized history to support improved sales in the past. Its completely accepted these days that removing guns from a population under fascism is required.

      Expanding the argument doesn’t disagree with my point, easy access to guns is stupid. Never disagreed with mental health or education. Stupid people tend to imagine who they are arguing against, which is why you imagined i disagreed with you on those points.

      • Jax@sh.itjust.works
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        25 days ago

        Did you seriously just try to suggest that fascist governments seizing guns is sanitized history?

        Debatelords are disgusting people. Refer back to my last comment.

        • pahlimur@lemmy.world
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          25 days ago

          I keep wondering when you will ask what i mean by easy access to guns. Dumb people always take several steps back into their beliefs before fighting back.

          Yes. Fascists don’t need to seize guns and have a complicated relationship with them. Nazi Germany is the easiest example. Gun ownership for true Germans and completely disallowed for ‘the other’. It does vary though, which is part of the difficulty in defining fascism and identifying fascists.

          I’d argue you are more of a debate lord. Telling me you won’t respond, then making more false stupid statements.

          • Jax@sh.itjust.works
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            25 days ago

            Why would I ask that?

            In order to purchase an AR-15 in Maryland you need to be 21 years of age and have an HQL. HQL requires firearms safety training and ends up taking about 30 days outside of that. After that, assuming I haven’t missed anything, you need to go through another background check that takes about two weeks.

            For a gun that needs to be broken apart to reload it.

            You have claimed they should be banned. You do understand that every time you’ve called me dumb whilst these things have been simultaneously true counts as projection, right?

            You do not understand what you’re talking about, so I’ll repeat myself with a little added bonus. Fuck fascists, fuck you, and fuck the people who agree with you.

            Here’s a little quote from Hitler, since you seem to love him so much. Let’s see how you interpret words from the man himself.

            “And so, I established in 1919 a programme and tendency that was a conscious slap in the face of the democratic-pacifist world (…) [We knew] it might take five or ten or twenty years, yet gradually an authoritarian state arose within the democratic state, and a nucleus of fanatical devotion and ruthless determination formed in a wretched world that lacked basic convictions.

            Only one danger could have jeopardised this development – if our adversaries had understood its principle, established a clear understanding of our ideas, and not offered any resistance. Or, alternatively, if they had from the first day annihilated with the utmost brutality the nucleus of our new movement.

            Neither was done. The times were such that our adversaries were no longer capable of accomplishing our annihilation, nor did they have the nerve. Arguably, they furthermore lacked the understanding to assume a wholly appropriate attitude. Instead, they began to tyrannise our young movement by bourgeois means, and, by doing so, they assisted the process of natural selection in a very fortunate manner. From there on, it was only a question of time until the leadership of the nation would fall to our hardened human material. (…)

            The more our adversaries believe they can obstruct our development by employing a degree of terror that is characteristic of their nature, the more they encourage it. Nietzsche said that a blow which does not kill a strong man only makes him stronger, and his words are confirmed a thousand times. Every blow strengthens our defiance, every persecution reinforces our single-minded determination, and the elements that do fall are good riddance to the movement.”