Reply #47: Who said anything about "as heavily armed as we please"? [View All]

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Even Scalito said this ruling doesn't affect the nearly 80-year-old ban* on civilian ownership of machineguns, for instance. It just said that the US government (or in this case its delegate, the city of Washington) can't outright and absolutely ban the ownership of handguns without infringing on a fundamental civil right. Note that DC's rather ambiguous Constitutional status is a large part of this case.

* yes, I know it's not exactly a ban and it is possible in certain circumstances and with a lot of red tape for a civilian to own a machine gun. But almost none do.