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n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427
edited June 2008 in General Discussion
Where are all the naysayers from yesterday. DC is already using this atrocious decision by the S.C. to regulate firearm ownership...and I can guarantee you that MANY places will follow suit. Here comes your registry and regulation like we've never seen before. Just watch...[xx(][:(!][V][:(!][:(!][:(!]
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427
    edited November -1
    They raped our Constitution...
  • HighballHighball Member Posts: 15,755
    edited November -1
    The mayor of DC said that he intends banning semi-autos....perfectly legal, I would say, according to the Supremes.

    Perhaps single shot black powder will be legal ? Oh..by the way..you will be barred from storing morethen 3 oUnces of BP...too dangerous, you know...??
  • davealddaveald Member Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    And did you think this was going to be a clear cut victory, or defeat? It seems to me that the more any pol.can muddy up the water the happier they are.
    Before you tell me, let me say that I know that the S.C. is supposed to be above politics, but anybody who believes that, is either a nut or a sap.
    These clowns are probably sharing a chug. off the old thunderbird, snapple or whatever cheap wine they drink, sharing a toot on the bong, and snikering at the can of worms they opened.
    I think they set the rights of private/ legal gun ownership back.
  • buschmasterbuschmaster Member Posts: 14,229 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    what registry/regulations are they adding?

    afaik semiauto's were already verboten.
  • DocDoc Member Posts: 13,898 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    With every new law a challenge will have to be raised. This ruling will be beneficial in future cases as it does strike down a primary anti-gun argument (collective vs individual right) so there is good in the ruling. But it certainly doesn't invalidate every gun law and anyone who expected that it would is a fool.

    Right now the court says a total ban is out. How much of a ban is permitted will have to be fought case by case.

    I disagree that the Heller ruling is awful. It's flawed, and not nearly what we wanted, but it has some good in it.
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  • STORM6490MTSTORM6490MT Member Posts: 84
    edited November -1
    Any time my politicians applaud something I know there is a trick to it. The Supreme Court punked out and opened Pandora's box. It helped a little but of course they allowed regulations.

    Now we need to go for the knock out.

    If not, fine, we need a revolution to clear this socialist garbage out. Maybe even get rid of the district of columbia. Ban our weapons and see how far your fat liberal * get.
  • jethrojethro Member Posts: 462 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I will have to agree with Saxon here. We didn't get to this level of restrictions with one law, and we will not get rid of them with one case. Incrementalism is how we lost our freedoms and it will be through incrementalism that we can get them back.


    Mike
  • susiesusie Member Posts: 7,679 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    As I said yesterday morning just after the ruling, if you read page 63 it appears that SCOTUS is asking for more challenges to come before them. In their assenting opinion, I believe, they are paving the way for more of these atrocious bans to be struck down. It is almost as if a blueprint has been laid out for these challenges. Read the first 63 pages. Many instances are given that support ownership and carry outside the home of modern firearms.
  • dan kellydan kelly Member Posts: 9,799
    edited November -1
    yep, the only thing that was ruled on was heller, therefore one would hope, every law abading citizen has the right to have a handgun in there own home ready to fire for self defence.
    as for anything else, take it to the supreme court and get them to rule on it before any more anti gun justices are appointed or it will be too late.
  • 4627046270 Member Posts: 12,627
    edited November -1
    it mite be time to start our own revolution.
    if they think we wont fight for our rights
    they just might not be up for a full fight.
    I knkow what would happen if the ever came
    here, for my guns. You here this all the
    time, but you never know who will really
    act if they came.
  • iluvgunsiluvguns Member Posts: 5,351
    edited November -1
    quote:Posted - 06/27/2008 : 11:34:25 PM
    Where are all the naysayers from yesterday. DC is already using this atrocious decision by the S.C. to regulate firearm ownership...and I can guarantee you that MANY places will follow suit. Here comes your registry and regulation like we've never seen before. Just watch

    Dang Eric...ya'll are the most "doom and gloom" folks I have ever been around! Do the folks in DC have it better the day after Heller than they did the day before it was overruled? Heck yes! At least NOW they can OWN a gun, registered or not. It is a step in the right direction. At least the DC officials have to regulate guns. Before they just said NO, period, end of story, you can't have any!
  • guntech59guntech59 Member Posts: 23,188 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Neither way is "right" or "good enough". They are still putting restriction on gun ownership.
  • Hunter MagHunter Mag Member Posts: 6,610 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    So we would have been better off if the SC voted 5-4 against the 2nd?[B)]
  • savage170savage170 Member Posts: 37,569 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The way I see it it is now up to DC residents to vote their dictators out of office that would send a message that would help all of us.
  • Remington1981Remington1981 Member Posts: 1,431 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by ECC
    Where are all the naysayers from yesterday. DC is already using this atrocious decision by the S.C. to regulate firearm ownership...and I can guarantee you that MANY places will follow suit. Here comes your registry and regulation like we've never seen before. Just watch...[xx(][:(!][V][:(!][:(!][:(!]


    Before the SCOUS made this ruling the states already had control over their own Restrictions(I.E. ILL, DC, NY, CAL). I don't see how this ruling changed anything as far as the restrictions go. If I am wrong please tell me otherwise. It's not like there were no restrictions before this ruling and now there are. Bottom line The SCOUS stated that every american has the right, not privelage to own a fire arm. I agree that there should be no restritions on Firearms as well, other than murderer's rapist and people who have a domestic violence problem. So I don't see how anyone could see this as negative. The restrictions were going to be there no matter what the ruling was. I belive if it had went the other way it would have been far worse
  • Remington1981Remington1981 Member Posts: 1,431 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by ECC
    They raped our Constitution...


    They raped our constitution?? Sorry I don't see a ruling that up holds the second ammendment as raping our contitution. As far as the restriction and laws go, they have always been regulated by each state, my 2c
  • guntech59guntech59 Member Posts: 23,188 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Remington1981
    quote:Originally posted by ECC
    Where are all the naysayers from yesterday. DC is already using this atrocious decision by the S.C. to regulate firearm ownership...and I can guarantee you that MANY places will follow suit. Here comes your registry and regulation like we've never seen before. Just watch...[xx(][:(!][V][:(!][:(!][:(!]


    Before the SCOUS made this ruling the states already had control over their own Restrictions(I.E. ILL, DC, NY, CAL). I don't see how this ruling changed anything as far as the restrictions go. If I am wrong please tell me otherwise. It's not like there were no restrictions before this ruling and now there are. Bottom line The SCOUS stated that every american has the right, not privelage to own a fire arm. I agree that there should be no restritions on Firearms as well, other than murderer's rapist and people who have a domestic violence problem. So I don't see how anyone could see this as negative. The restrictions were going to be there no matter what the ruling was. I belive if it had went the other way it would have been far worse


    Be careful with this. Do you know how easy it is to be hit with a "domestic violence" charge? Restriction are restrictions. You are either a criminal or you're not. Do you think that because my drunken BiL starts a fight at my house that I should lose MY gun rights for beating his * down. That IS how it works, y'know. Just that easy and quick!
  • Remington1981Remington1981 Member Posts: 1,431 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by guntech59
    quote:Originally posted by Remington1981
    quote:Originally posted by ECC
    Where are all the naysayers from yesterday. DC is already using this atrocious decision by the S.C. to regulate firearm ownership...and I can guarantee you that MANY places will follow suit. Here comes your registry and regulation like we've never seen before. Just watch...[xx(][:(!][V][:(!][:(!][:(!]


    Before the SCOUS made this ruling the states already had control over their own Restrictions(I.E. ILL, DC, NY, CAL). I don't see how this ruling changed anything as far as the restrictions go. If I am wrong please tell me otherwise. It's not like there were no restrictions before this ruling and now there are. Bottom line The SCOUS stated that every american has the right, not privelage to own a fire arm. I agree that there should be no restritions on Firearms as well, other than murderer's rapist and people who have a domestic violence problem. So I don't see how anyone could see this as negative. The restrictions were going to be there no matter what the ruling was. I belive if it had went the other way it would have been far worse


    Be careful with this. Do you know how easy it is to be hit with a "domestic violence" charge? Restriction are restrictions. You are either a criminal or you're not. Do you think that because my drunken BiL starts a fight at my house that I should lose MY gun rights for beating his * down. That IS how it works, y'know. Just that easy and quick!


    Sorry, I should have made that more clear, What I was talking about is someone that has harmed or beaten a Child or a Woman.
  • guntech59guntech59 Member Posts: 23,188 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The lawsuits challenging individual local laws have already started. Even though DC lost their case, they will still have VERY restrictive laws.
  • Remington1981Remington1981 Member Posts: 1,431 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    [The biggest flaw I find in all of this was the close nature of the vote (i.e. 5-4).
    [/quote]

    +10000

    it's only a matter of time
  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Remington1981
    quote:Originally posted by ECC
    Where are all the naysayers from yesterday. DC is already using this atrocious decision by the S.C. to regulate firearm ownership...and I can guarantee you that MANY places will follow suit. Here comes your registry and regulation like we've never seen before. Just watch...[xx(][:(!][V][:(!][:(!][:(!]


    Before the SCOUS made this ruling the states already had control over their own Restrictions(I.E. ILL, DC, NY, CAL). I don't see how this ruling changed anything as far as the restrictions go. If I am wrong please tell me otherwise. It's not like there were no restrictions before this ruling and now there are. Bottom line The SCOUS stated that every american has the right, not privelage to own a fire arm. I agree that there should be no restritions on Firearms as well, other than murderer's rapist and people who have a domestic violence problem. So I don't see how anyone could see this as negative. The restrictions were going to be there no matter what the ruling was. I belive if it had went the other way it would have been far worse



    Did you read their decision...did you read how they believed reasonable restrictions were Constitutional...did you read how they believed a registry would be OK...did you read how their decision only applied to some handguns??? I suggest you go back and read their decision word for word. They opened us up to new restrictions that would have been considered Un-Constitutional in the past....but now that the Supreme Court has weighed in on the issue, you can rest assured that many, many, many states and localities will be coming up wiht new legislation and regulations.

    I honestly believe that half of you guys must have not read the decision.[?]
  • Hunter MagHunter Mag Member Posts: 6,610 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Remington1981
    quote:Originally posted by ECC
    Where are all the naysayers from yesterday. DC is already using this atrocious decision by the S.C. to regulate firearm ownership...and I can guarantee you that MANY places will follow suit. Here comes your registry and regulation like we've never seen before. Just watch...[xx(][:(!][V][:(!][:(!][:(!]


    Before the SCOUS made this ruling the states already had control over their own Restrictions(I.E. ILL, DC, NY, CAL). I don't see how this ruling changed anything as far as the restrictions go. If I am wrong please tell me otherwise. It's not like there were no restrictions before this ruling and now there are. Bottom line The SCOUS stated that every american has the right, not privelage to own a fire arm. I agree that there should be no restritions on Firearms as well, other than murderer's rapist and people who have a domestic violence problem. So I don't see how anyone could see this as negative. The restrictions were going to be there no matter what the ruling was. I belive if it had went the other way it would have been far worse

    Rem some are eternally negative...[:(]
  • gunpaqgunpaq Member Posts: 4,607 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    National gun registration?

    We already have it!

    Every firearm purchase you make goes into a national directory and then onto INTERPOL. Say it aint so. Our laws say so but this is what happens.

    Don't beleive it? The next time you cross the border just ask the customs agent to tell you what firearm you purchased last.
  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by gunpaq
    National gun registration?

    We already have it!

    Every firearm purchase you make goes into a national directory and then onto INTERPOL. Say it aint so. Our laws say so but this is what happens.

    Don't beleive it? The next time you cross the border just ask the customs agent to tell you what firearm you purchased last.



    This is BS. When a dealer calls in a background check, we do not even tell the FBI what the gun is...and by Federal Law, any record of that phone call is supposed to be destroyed within 24 hours. The only real record of firearm ownership is in the hands of the dealers...with their log books and 4473's...which can be destroyed after 20 years.
  • guntech59guntech59 Member Posts: 23,188 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Hunter Mag
    quote:Originally posted by Remington1981
    quote:Originally posted by ECC
    Where are all the naysayers from yesterday. DC is already using this atrocious decision by the S.C. to regulate firearm ownership...and I can guarantee you that MANY places will follow suit. Here comes your registry and regulation like we've never seen before. Just watch...[xx(][:(!][V][:(!][:(!][:(!]


    Before the SCOUS made this ruling the states already had control over their own Restrictions(I.E. ILL, DC, NY, CAL). I don't see how this ruling changed anything as far as the restrictions go. If I am wrong please tell me otherwise. It's not like there were no restrictions before this ruling and now there are. Bottom line The SCOUS stated that every american has the right, not privelage to own a fire arm. I agree that there should be no restritions on Firearms as well, other than murderer's rapist and people who have a domestic violence problem. So I don't see how anyone could see this as negative. The restrictions were going to be there no matter what the ruling was. I belive if it had went the other way it would have been far worse

    Rem some are eternally negative...[:(]


    Huntermag, Did you read the assenting opinion paper or just the headlines in the news and paper. I know it's 157 pages but, PLEASE read the whole thing. You may have different thoughts about it then.

    Yes, I am negative. I have a right to be. I do not trust the government. Do you?
  • gunpaqgunpaq Member Posts: 4,607 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:This is BS. When a dealer calls in a background check, we do not even tell the FBI what the gun is...and by Federal Law, any record of that phone call is supposed to be destroyed within 24 hours. The only real record of firearm ownership is in the hands of the dealers...with their log books and 4473's...which can be destroyed after 20 years.

    quote:by Federal Law, any record of that phone call is supposed to be destroyed within 24 hours.

    Yes , this is BS exactly what I told the customs agent during a search of my vehicle at the border. They were very concerned that I might be bringing two handguns that I had purchased earlier that week.

    I gave them the whole run down of our laws and procedures that just brought about a few laughs. There on the screen were the firearm purchases that I had made. They were all very professional about the search and said that recent handgun purchases get flagged first.

    I guess I was experiencing total BS the three times my vehicle was searched during the last four years and told exactly what they were looking for.
  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by gunpaq
    quote:This is BS. When a dealer calls in a background check, we do not even tell the FBI what the gun is...and by Federal Law, any record of that phone call is supposed to be destroyed within 24 hours. The only real record of firearm ownership is in the hands of the dealers...with their log books and 4473's...which can be destroyed after 20 years.

    quote:by Federal Law, any record of that phone call is supposed to be destroyed within 24 hours.

    Yes , this is BS exactly what I told the customs agent during a search of my vehicle at the border. They were very concerned that I might be bringing two handguns that I had purchased earlier that week.

    I gave them the whole run down of our laws and procedures that just brought about a few laughs. There on the screen were the firearm purchases that I had made. They were all very professional about the search and said that recent handgun purchases get flagged first.

    I guess I was experiencing total BS the three times my vehicle was searched during the last four years and told exactly what they were looking for.



    Well...that would be plausible...IF the Gov't is violating Federal Law. We are asked if it's a long gun or a handgun when we call the NICS check in. We need someone like yourself to sue the Gov't over this matter...someone who has been directly affected.
  • CaptplaidCaptplaid Member Posts: 20,298 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by susie
    As I said yesterday morning just after the ruling, if you read page 63 it appears that SCOTUS is asking for more challenges to come before them. In their assenting opinion, I believe, they are paving the way for more of these atrocious bans to be struck down. It is almost as if a blueprint has been laid out for these challenges. Read the first 63 pages. Many instances are given that support ownership and carry outside the home of modern firearms.



    BINGO!!!!

    Scalia does give clues and assistance to issues he supports!

    If D.C. wants to be pricks and go before this court again, how recpetive do you think they are going to be????

    BRING IT ON!!!

    What is all these NRA wimpy attitudes around here? "OOH we might lose."

    The losers in this case are acting like the liberal panty wastes that they are. They have nothing to defend themselves and the more abosrd they try to oppress the residence, the bigger they are going to lose in court.
  • Stylishxone767Stylishxone767 Member Posts: 513 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yes I read it word for word, and I knew as soon as a popped on here people would be complaining because they didnt get everything they wanted all at once. Yes in the majority opinion they allow for the city to require some sort of permit to purchase a firearm, but I still consider it a step in the right direction. Yeah ill watch you wanted me too, and most likely see no nationwide registration passed anytime in the near future. The truth is, most of the gun restrictions that were passed federally during the 90's have all been reversed and then some. Then his decision came along and it made another step in the right direction. American's attitude towards firearm ownership has shifted slightly towards the 2nd amendment. If we think back to when the Columbine tragedy occurred, many of the moderate average "joe citizen types" were all in support of more gun control laws, so Clinton passed more. I remember the general attitude of the population was anti-gun. There were thousands protesting at the NRA national convention, many more then usual. But since then we have had many more school shootings, some worse then Columbine and times have not gotten safer. My opinion is, many people expected some type of change for the better after all those laws were passed, but nothing got better as we can expect. When they see nothing good come from those laws, their opinion changes. I now see a lot of people out there owning guns who are not necessarily big time gun owners or shooters and dont spend time on sites like this. There people are buying a gun or two and getting a ccw. While many of people on here will be up in arms that they are not more active for the cause, they are the people who 10 years ago would have stood there in support of the Clinton Bans, but now will vote against it. They are the moderate vote, and as every good politician knows, the moderate vote wins you the election. I think with this base line ruling, and the support of your moderate vote, you will things shift towards the 2nd amendment. So think a little positive!
  • CaptplaidCaptplaid Member Posts: 20,298 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    How long will registrations last if D.C and Chicago choose to abuse it?

    This is a gray area and the courts have allowed for some "reasonable" use, but if the likes of Daley are arrogant enough to abuse registrations, the court can still declare local governments are not responsible enough to constitutionally granted rights and only the federal government can restrict Second Amendment rights.
  • guntech59guntech59 Member Posts: 23,188 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Captplaid
    How long will registrations last if D.C and Chicago choose to abuse it?

    This is a gray area and the courts have allowed for some "reasonable" use, but if the likes of Daley are arrogant enough to abuse registrations, the court can still declare local governments are not responsible enough to constitutionally granted rights and only the federal government can restrict Second Amendment rights.

    Says who?
  • Stylishxone767Stylishxone767 Member Posts: 513 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Captplaid
    How long will registrations last if D.C and Chicago choose to abuse it?

    This is a gray area and the courts have allowed for some "reasonable" use, but if the likes of Daley are arrogant enough to abuse registrations, the court can still declare local governments are not responsible enough to constitutionally granted rights and only the federal government can restrict Second Amendment rights.


    What r u talking about? That doesnt make any sense.
  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by guntech59
    quote:Originally posted by Captplaid
    How long will registrations last if D.C and Chicago choose to abuse it?

    This is a gray area and the courts have allowed for some "reasonable" use, but if the likes of Daley are arrogant enough to abuse registrations, the court can still declare local governments are not responsible enough to constitutionally granted rights and only the federal government can restrict Second Amendment rights.

    Says who?



    +1000
  • Stylishxone767Stylishxone767 Member Posts: 513 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Instead of complaining about the ruling, lets focus on enforcing it. I just read an article where DC's mayor does not plan on allowing for semi-auto handguns to be registered. He is already planning on defying the ruling! Now what in his mind is a semi-auto handgun? A person can twist it any way he wants.
  • guntech59guntech59 Member Posts: 23,188 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The ruling allows for "some restriction"....what does that mean? Apparently the DC mayor thinks anything short of a outright ban is OK.
  • CaptplaidCaptplaid Member Posts: 20,298 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I see this majority opinion by the SCOTUS as a veiled invitation for more cases. They want to rule in our favor. This judgment was written so broadly because it is the first of many. The court has not been asked to define the Second Amendment, like most others. It wasn't written to provide wiggle room, it was written to provide the broad outline, with details to filled in later with other cases.

    This case affirms that we, the people, do have a right to protect ourselves with firearms.

    And that is about all this case provides for us.


    As the far left continues to abuse Second Amendment rights, it will further provide proof that we, the people, need to guard ourselves from an abusive heavy handed government. It will make future cases easier to win.

    Read a little about Scalia. Listen to him when he does talk in public. He is a fascinate person. This is how he operates, and this is how the Scalia Court will continue to operate in the near future.

    Scalia Court? Isn't Roberts Chief Justice? Scalia is running the show for now. [:D]
  • guntech59guntech59 Member Posts: 23,188 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Captplaid
    This case affirms that we, the people, do have a right to protect ourselves with firearms.



    This is true....with some restrictions. This is NOT staying true to the 2nd Amendment. They are allowing DC to infringe on an uninfringable right.

    [?][?][?]
  • Hunter MagHunter Mag Member Posts: 6,610 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have some very deep concerns about the 4 SCJ's that voted against the 2nd. They are supposed to be our "elite" decision makers.
  • JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by jethro
    I will have to agree with Saxon here. We didn't get to this level of restrictions with one law, and we will not get rid of them with one case. Incrementalism is how we lost our freedoms and it will be through incrementalism that we can get them back.


    Mike

    I would like to think you are right, but from everything I've read so far, it appears to me that the government's power and authority to restrict gun ownership has now been set in stone.
    The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
  • Hunter MagHunter Mag Member Posts: 6,610 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I tend to think of it as the governments power to ban guns has been destroyed. [8D]
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