Scalia died in February.
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The others are California, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts and New Jersey, according to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
NY and Connecticut strengthened their existing assault-weapon bans after the 2012 shooting that left 20 children and six educators dead at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. Lanza then killed himself. It said people in CT still can legally own more than 1,000 types of handguns, rifles and shotguns. When we saw wrong, we did what was right.
“I thank the Supreme Court for recognizing that states can be smarter about how we sell guns and what kinds of guns we sell, and that those commonsense steps do not infringe on Constitutional rights”.
The Supreme Court must overturn such a ban if they take up the case, and they know it… which is why we sadly suspect they will refuse to hear the case at all. These weapons are disproportionately used in crime, and particularly in criminal mass shootings like the attack in Newtown.
The Supreme Court’s refusal to comment on the legality of either state law comes a little over a week after the U.S.’s deadliest mass shooting, notes CNN.
Murphy relented after Republican leaders promised votes on Democratic amendments to expand background checks and ban gun sales to suspected terrorists on federal watch lists.
The justices declined to hear an appeal of an October ruling by the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that upheld laws prohibiting semiautomatic weapons and large capacity magazines in the two northeastern states.
“The overwhelming majority of citizens who own and use such rifles do so for lawful purposes, including self-defense and target shooting”, Justice Thomas wrote.
Donald Trump recently said he wished club goers in Orlando had had guns during the massacre so they could have killed the shooter, but he later changed his opinion on that.
The Connecticut Citizens’ Defense League challenged the law in 2013, arguing that the law violated the Second Amendment.
“I’m hoping that today’s court decision, and what I think is going to happen in the Fourth Circuit, will send a message this is constitutional”. “If Adam Lanza didn’t have an assault weapon, lives would have been saved”, Malloy said.
Last December the Supreme Court denied hearing a similar case from a Chicago suburb.
A national assault weapons ban expired in 2004. The court also ruled 6-2 that a patent holder can’t appeal the decision to hold an inter partes review proceeding.
The Supreme Court has once again punted on hearing a case that challenges the constitutionality of so-called assault weapons bans.
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Gunmakers quickly responded with versions that are legal in CT, but they are limited to rimfire ammunition that is less powerful than that the banned centerfire cartridges used at Sandy Hook, where the gunman fired 154 rounds in less than five minutes, killing almost everyone he hit in a hallway and two classrooms.
