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jmowreader

(50,555 posts) Fri Dec 5, 2014, 04:15 PM Dec 2014

This is not a thread about murderous police

Maryland has one of the strictest gun laws in the US. Passed post-Newtown it requires owner licensing and bans assault rifles and hi-cap magazines. Thirty-five red states have filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to overturn it.

Assume they're successful. Could this be used as precedent for blue states to overturn...oh, anti-same sex marriage laws that haven't already been overturned, anti-abortion laws or voter disenfranchisement efforts in red states?

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Doubtful Lurks Often Dec 2014 #1

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Fri Dec 5, 2014, 04:31 PM

Dec 2014

and I doubt that 35 red states have filed a lawsuit in Maryland. What they filed would have been amicus briefs in support of overturning Maryland's laws.

This is something that happens in lots of cases and there have been blue states filing an amicus brief in support of stricter gun laws in other cases.

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