[h=1]Federal Appeals Court Upholds Bans on America’s Most Popular Rifles and Magazines.[/h]
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20151019/federal-appeals-court-upholds-bans-on-america-s-most-popular-rifles-and-magazine
If any further evidence were necessary of what’s at stake with the 2016 general election, a ruling issued today by the U.S. District Court for the Second Circuit should provide it. The court’s opinion in
New York State Rifle and Pistol Assoc., Inc., v. Cuomo largely upheld Connecticut and New York laws passed in the wake of the Sandy Hook tragedy. The laws banned America’s most popular modern rifles, including the AR-15, and magazines for any firearm with a capacity of greater than 10 rounds.
Once again, this opinion signals a judiciary unwilling to uphold the Second Amendment or the U.S. Supreme Court’s reading of that provision. In the landmark
Heller case, the Supreme Court invalidated D.C.’s ban on handgun possession, deferring to the choice of the American people on what sort of firearms are best suited for home defense. It also held that the availability of alternative firearms did not change its analysis.
If justice is to be served in this case at all, it will now have to come from the U.S. Supreme Court. If or when that will happen is anybody’s guess. What is once again eminently clear, however, is that lower courts are not likely to interfere even with “serious encroachments” on Second Amendment rights.
Fortunately, the decision says nothing about protections of the right that can be afforded through proactive legislation, meaning that gun owners’ best resort is still the political process.
Citizens need to learn what that means, it means get off your backside and educate people about the safety and security firearm ownership is. That public safety cannot be enhanced by disarming citizens. Challenge all gun control propaganda in the media. Write, phone and vote with your safety in mind. If you think the NRA or judiciary is going to do it for you better think again. The courts belong to government not citizens. Every voice does count.