legaleagle_45
Silver Member
^^^ bump bigrep fails to understand that SCOTUS can ban dangerous and unusual weapons.
The language is conjunctive, not disjunctive. A weapon must both be dangerous and unusal. Being on or the other is insufficient.
If it makes you feel better, I believe both Miller and Heller got it wrong, although Heller comes closest to the postion I would advocate. The "common use" and "unusal" portions of the test advocated by Scalia, create a catch 22 for the development of new arms and also prevents a careful analysis of weapons that have long been strictly controlled by the NFA of 1934. Full auto weapons are not in "common use" now, but that is because of a law that restricted them back in 1934... creating a catch 22.
The postion I would advocate is what I term a "duality test". But to understand where I come up with that, you must understand a case cited by Miller, to wit: Aymette v. State, 21 Tenn. 154, 156 (1840). Specifically, Miller relied upon Aymette to assert protection for "militarily useful weapons". But that is not what Aymette held. Instead, Aymette found that weapons which are useful only for the rogue or the assassin could be banned.