Federal Court Finds AR-15 Not Protected By Second Amendment

By Tom Knighton

At the moment, no firearm is as demonized as the AR-15. It’s been painted as a weapon meant for nothing but murder and mayhem, yet the reality is that it’s a tool. It has no volition of its own. It only does what a human tells it to do. That doesn’t matter for far too many people.

Then, to make matter worse, we have a Federal District Court argue that the AR-15 isn’t really protected by the Second Amendment.

More concerning is the Court’s determination with regard to the Plaintiffs’ first claim that the law infringes upon their Second Amendment rights. The Court immediately declared that “Assault weapons and LCMs [large capacity magazines] — the types banned by the Act — are not within the scope of the personal right to ‘bear Arms’ under the Second Amendment.” While the law bans a slew of firearms, the Plaintiffs and the Court focused their analysis on the AR-15.

The Court found that the undisputed facts in the record “convincingly demonstrate that the AR-15 and LCMs banned by the Act are ‘weapons that are most useful for military service.’ In reviewing case law, the Court found that Heller had rejected the proposition that …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms