{"id":1988,"date":"2017-02-24T08:49:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2017-07-06T17:46:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T08:46:24","slug":"more-black-robed-tyrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/more-black-robed-tyrants\/","title":{"rendered":"More Black Robed Tyrants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note to Dime, capitalization is a wonderful thing.<\/em><\/p>\n

A good friend of mine, Tom Selgas, was on the team that argued Heller vs. DC, the landmark 2A case. He sent me the \u00a0link<\/a> to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit regarding the Maryland ‘Assault Weapon’ ban.<\/p>\n

The decision hinges on an interesting point, specifically:<\/p>\n

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We conclude \u2014 contrary to the now- vacated decision of our prior panel \u2014 that the banned assault weapons and large-capacity magazines are not protected by the Second Amendment. That is, we are convinced that the banned assault weapons and large-capacity magazines are among those arms that are \u201clike\u201d \u201cM-16 rifles\u201d \u2014 \u201cweapons that are most useful in military service\u201d \u2014 which the Heller Court singled out as being beyond the Second Amendment\u2019s reach.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My friend introduced the link with this message:<\/p>\n

This decision of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, which (if its logic were followed to the end) would justify the banning of all firearms under the Second Amendment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The decision is typical boring tripe and even considers that no other court before it came to a similar conclusion. It seems progressive judges give emphasis to prior decisions when it fits their agenda, but less emphasis when they do not fit the agenda.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Note to Dime, capitalization is a wonderful thing.<\/em><\/p>\n

A good friend of mine, Tom Selgas, was on the team that argued Heller vs. DC, the landmark 2A case. He sent me the \u00a0link<\/a> to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit regarding the Maryland ‘Assault Weapon’ ban.<\/p>\n

The decision hinges on an interesting point, specifically:<\/p>\n

We conclude \u2014 contrary to the now- vacated decision of our prior panel \u2014 that the banned assault weapons and large-capacity magazines are not protected by the Second Amendment. That is, we are convinced that the banned assault weapons and large-capacity magazines are among those arms that are \u201clike\u201d \u201cM-16 rifles\u201d \u2014 \u201cweapons that are most useful in military service\u201d \u2014 which the Heller Court singled out as being … Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5506,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5506"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1989,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions\/1989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}