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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
Automatic machine guns are banned. That ban has been deemed constitutional.
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Actually they are not banned. Congress knew in 1934 that it had zero power to ban
any arms, especially those that were of the type that constituted the ordinary military equipment.
The widely interpreted power to tax afforded a wider range of powers to restrict possession of full auto machine guns, sawed-off shotguns etc by requiring a Treasury tax stamp to be affixed to the weapon to prove a transfer tax had been paid. Hundreds of thousands of Title II arms are in private hands that run the gamut from little 9mm sub-machine guns to 20mm Vulcan MiniGuns.
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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
What's so crazy about extending that ban to, say, high capacity magazines?
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I've read
legal arguments on both sides; I haven't read a compelling one that argues
for banning.
Emotional arguments are everywhere one turns but are rarely of any value when discussing important issues especially issues of legally enforced public policy. That goes triple when the policy being advocated demands either the ignoring or purposeful violation of fundamental, constitutionally enforced rights.
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