Massachusetts court overturns state stun gun ban

By Chris Eger

The Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday found the state’s total ban on civilian possession of a stun gun violates the Second Amendment.
In the 22-page ruling in Ramirez v. Commonwealth, Chief Justice Ralph Gants said the high court “reluctantly” came to the conclusion that Massachusetts’s blanket prohibition on electronic weapons couldn’t be saved as it was flawed in its wording by the legislature. The solution advanced by the court: delay the lifting of the ban by 60 days to allow legislators to craft a law that would balance the right to keep and bear arms with public safety.
“Unless and until the Legislature were to act to replace § 131J [the current stun gun law] with a revised version that would pass muster under the Second Amendment, facial invalidation of § 131J would mean that there would be no law in place preventing stun guns from being sold to or possessed by violent felons, persons convicted of domestic violence, convicted drug dealers, children, or the mentally ill,” Gants said for the court.
The case, that of Jorge Ramirez, came from a predawn traffic stop by the Revere Police Department in November 2015 over a broken tail light. Ramirez, a passenger in the vehicle,

Source: Guns.com