US appeals court upholds Connecticut gun laws passed after Newtown school shooting

[PoliticAverse]

NEW YORK >> The purchase and sale of semiautomatic weapons will continue to be prohibited in Connecticut and New York after a ruling from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Monday upheld gun regulation laws passed in 2013.

“We hold that the core provisions of the New York and Connecticut laws prohibiting possession of semiautomatic assault weapons and large capacity magazines do not violate the Second Amendment, and that the challenged individual provisions are not void for vagueness,” the court wrote, according to the opinion released Monday.

The ruling also stated, “Because the prohibitions are substantially related to the important governmental interests of public safety and crime reduction, they pass constitutional muster.”

However, the federal appeals court ruled that Connecticut could not prohibit the sale and possession of non-semiautomatic Remington 7615 and that New York laws could not address load limits of weapons.

Read the rest at: http://www.nhregister.com/general-news/20151019/us-appeals-court-upholds-connecticut-gun-laws-passed-after-newtown-school-shooting

[virginia mountainman]

1. Doesn't really matter..

THe people with the restricted rifles, have largely chose to ignore the law in New York, and most law enforcement refuse to enforce it.

The people have effectively nullified it.

[melm00se]

2. shhhhhhhh

Civil disobedience is only acceptable if they disagree with the law and in the case of any gun control law civil disobedience automatically slots you as a "law abiding gun owner...until you aren't".

[Nuclear Unicorn]

4. How can citizens comply with USC Title 10 Section 311 if they can't buy an assault weapon?

[Eleanors38]

7. I think your "Civil Disobedience," in effet, extends to LEOs...

not just some flower child or Z.Z.Topp-beard-wearing militia-types.

[beevul]

3. Rumor has it this case or one like it will head to SCOTUS. N/T

[virginia mountainman]

5. Beevul, really and truly, even the SCOTUS are becoming irrelevant to this debate.

IMHO..

A strong majority of the people WITH the guns, are at a point where they really don't care, what the "powers that be" think, or want to do. And why should they? In their communities, their neighbors all agree, practically all the local law enforcement in NY, have all be said they "will not enforce" these laws, or enforcement is a "very, very low priority (wink wink)". So what does it matter, what Como, or a bunch of suites in a far of city think? Let them go "door to door" and enforce the law. They are irrelevant. They passed a law that no one will follow, and people are openly flaunting it.

If cities and states can choose what laws to enforce (marijuana, sanctuary cities, etc...), why not the rest of us pick and choose what laws to follow? After all, we are the ones with the guns.

[beevul]

6. Yes, crumbling legitimacy and credibility.

When "the law" can mean anything based on the desires or biases of those "in charge", increasingly, the law means more and more nothing.


This is not a particularly good sign for the health of a nation.

[Eleanors38]

8. The whiff of moral corruption in any prohibition is "creating criminals."

Then the real truth is revealed: The issue is punishing millions of hated folks under the thin veil of safety and public health, using a villified thing, practice, or status.

Fails everytime.