SCOTUS HAS JUST LEFT THE SECOND AMMENDMENT TEETERING ON THE BRINK OF BECOMING MEANINGLESS

The Supreme Court in effect upheld Connecticut’s ban on 180 semiautomatic guns, including AR-15s and AK-47s, and high-capacity magazines

BarkGrowlBite | June 21, 2016

The Supreme Court refused Monday to take up a challenge to gun bans enacted in Connecticut and New York. The Connecticut bans were passed in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre and cover semi-automatic guns, including Ar-15s and AK-47s, as well as high capacity magazines. The Connecticut law names more than 180 weapons that cannot be sold.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit upheld the Connecticut ban and a similar ban in New York. SCOTUS refused to review either case, thus leaving the bans in effect.

Monday’s decision is really nothing new. SCOTUS in the past has refused to review gun bans enacted in Maryland, California, Hawaii, Massachusetts and New, Jersey. Many cities and towns have similar bans, all of which have been upheld by lower courts.

Gun rights advocates argued to no avail that the bans violate the the Supreme Court’s 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, which said individuals have a right to gun ownership for self-protection.

And here we are worried about Hillary Clinton becoming President and appointing liberal justices who will repeal the Second Amendment. The Supreme Court’s refusal to stop the Connecticut and New York gun bans, and the bans that have been upheld in other states, as well as in cities and towns, have left the Second Amendment teetering on the brink of becoming meaningless.

Apparently, as it stands now, states and local jurisdictions can limit gun ownership to revolvers, single-shot hunting rifles and shotguns without violating Heller. Thank God I live in gun happy Texas where there will be no gun ban nonsense.