In upholding Maryland's 'assault weapons' ban, the court employed dubious legal reasoning to trample on American constitutional rights. Freed up by the Supreme Court's ongoing reluctance to engage in depth with the Second Amendment, the Fourth Circuit has taken it upon itself to rewrite Heller en banc. In a 10–4 decision, issued yesterday afternoon, the court upheld Maryland's ban on both "assault weapons" and "high capacity magazines." By so doing, it deprived the people of Maryland, the Carolinas, and the Virginias of the core protections to which the Constitution entitles them.
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All of this judicial activism is supposed to be about promoting "safety" at the expense of liberty. Yet in Maryland in 2015 only 3 people were killed by rifle. Five times that many were beaten to death. Read some context about what was being "controlled" in this case.
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