Sotomayor, et al: Assault weapons are "commonly available semi-automatic rifles".

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Their dissent in Cargill:

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR,
with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting.

On October 1, 2017, a shooter opened fire from a hotel
room overlooking an outdoor concert in Las Vegas, Nevada,
in what would become the deadliest mass shooting in U. S.
history. Within a matter of minutes, using several hundred
rounds of ammunition, the shooter killed 58 people and
wounded over 500. He did so by affixing bump stocks to
commonly available, semiautomatic rifles. These simple
devices harness a rifle’s recoil energy to slide the rifle back
and forth and repeatedly “bump” the shooter’s stationary
trigger finger, creating rapid fire. All the shooter had to do
was pull the trigger and press the gun forward. The bump
stock did the rest.

According to the liberal minority on the court - AR15s are "commonly available"
If AR15s are "commonly available", they are plainly "in common use."
If AR15s are "commonly available" they are plainly not "dangerous and unusual"

As the various state 'assault weapon' bans their way to the USSC, the pro-gun plaintiff / defendants can add Sotomayro, Kagan and Jackson's dissent to their arguments against said bans.

Thank God for DEI hires!
 
Their dissent in Cargill:

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR,
with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting.

On October 1, 2017, a shooter opened fire from a hotel
room overlooking an outdoor concert in Las Vegas, Nevada,
in what would become the deadliest mass shooting in U. S.
history. Within a matter of minutes, using several hundred
rounds of ammunition, the shooter killed 58 people and
wounded over 500. He did so by affixing bump stocks to
commonly available, semiautomatic rifles. These simple
devices harness a rifle’s recoil energy to slide the rifle back
and forth and repeatedly “bump” the shooter’s stationary
trigger finger, creating rapid fire. All the shooter had to do
was pull the trigger and press the gun forward. The bump
stock did the rest.

According to the liberal minority on the court - AR15s are "commonly available"
If AR15s are "commonly available", they are plainly "in common use."
If AR15s are "commonly available" they are plainly not "dangerous and unusual"

As the various state 'assault weapon' bans their way to the USSC, the pro-gun plaintiff / defendants can add Sotomayro, Kagan and Jackson's dissent to their arguments against said bans.

Thank God for DEI hires!
CA attempted an assault weapons ban in the 80s among other times. They tried to use a thumb hole in the stock of a rifle to define an assault weapon. SMFH. They will grasp at anything to remove your rights.
 
Their dissent in Cargill:

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR,
with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting.

On October 1, 2017, a shooter opened fire from a hotel
room overlooking an outdoor concert in Las Vegas, Nevada,
in what would become the deadliest mass shooting in U. S.
history. Within a matter of minutes, using several hundred
rounds of ammunition, the shooter killed 58 people and
wounded over 500. He did so by affixing bump stocks to
commonly available, semiautomatic rifles. These simple
devices harness a rifle’s recoil energy to slide the rifle back
and forth and repeatedly “bump” the shooter’s stationary
trigger finger, creating rapid fire. All the shooter had to do
was pull the trigger and press the gun forward. The bump
stock did the rest.

According to the liberal minority on the court - AR15s are "commonly available"
If AR15s are "commonly available", they are plainly "in common use."
If AR15s are "commonly available" they are plainly not "dangerous and unusual"

As the various state 'assault weapon' bans their way to the USSC, the pro-gun plaintiff / defendants can add Sotomayro, Kagan and Jackson's dissent to their arguments against said bans.

Thank God for DEI hires!
who told you a rifle is not dangerouis?
 
Their dissent in Cargill:

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR,
with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting.

On October 1, 2017, a shooter opened fire from a hotel
room overlooking an outdoor concert in Las Vegas, Nevada,
in what would become the deadliest mass shooting in U. S.
history. Within a matter of minutes, using several hundred
rounds of ammunition, the shooter killed 58 people and
wounded over 500. He did so by affixing bump stocks to
commonly available, semiautomatic rifles. These simple
devices harness a rifle’s recoil energy to slide the rifle back
and forth and repeatedly “bump” the shooter’s stationary
trigger finger, creating rapid fire. All the shooter had to do
was pull the trigger and press the gun forward. The bump
stock did the rest.

According to the liberal minority on the court - AR15s are "commonly available"
If AR15s are "commonly available", they are plainly "in common use."
If AR15s are "commonly available" they are plainly not "dangerous and unusual"

As the various state 'assault weapon' bans their way to the USSC, the pro-gun plaintiff / defendants can add Sotomayro, Kagan and Jackson's dissent to their arguments against said bans.

Thank God for DEI hires!
What about bypassing the courts and taking the guns from crazy people?

Crazy people shouldn't have guns.
 
who told you a rifle is not dangerouis?
"Dangerous and usual"
To wit:

2. Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose: For example, concealed weapons prohibitions have been upheld under the Amendment or state analogues. The Court’s opinion should not be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms. Miller’s holding that the sorts of weapons protected are those “in common use at the time” finds support in the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons.

"Dangerous and usual" is conjunctive; if something is common, it cannot be unusual - thus AR15s are not "dangerous and unusual".
 
Their dissent in Cargill:

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR,
with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting.

On October 1, 2017, a shooter opened fire from a hotel
room overlooking an outdoor concert in Las Vegas, Nevada,
in what would become the deadliest mass shooting in U. S.
history. Within a matter of minutes, using several hundred
rounds of ammunition, the shooter killed 58 people and
wounded over 500. He did so by affixing bump stocks to
commonly available, semiautomatic rifles. These simple
devices harness a rifle’s recoil energy to slide the rifle back
and forth and repeatedly “bump” the shooter’s stationary
trigger finger, creating rapid fire. All the shooter had to do
was pull the trigger and press the gun forward. The bump
stock did the rest.

According to the liberal minority on the court - AR15s are "commonly available"
If AR15s are "commonly available", they are plainly "in common use."
If AR15s are "commonly available" they are plainly not "dangerous and unusual"

As the various state 'assault weapon' bans their way to the USSC, the pro-gun plaintiff / defendants can add Sotomayro, Kagan and Jackson's dissent to their arguments against said bans.

Thank God for DEI hires!
If you showed those three DEI morons a picture of a Star Trek Phaser they’d want to ban it because it looks scary.
 
Typically lefties focus on the weapon rather than the shooter when the mass shooter is typically left wing. What do we know about Stephen Paddock? Almost nobody even recognizes the name but the media keeps us aware "bump stocks". What does that say about today's media and the alleged expertise of the FBI that couldn't come up with a motive for an attack on a Trump rally in Vegas?
 

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