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In reply to the discussion: I don't see how (one part of) the new NY gun law can be constitutional [View all]cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)43. You really didn't get the OP even a little bit
It is not a gun store's job to justify a bayonet mount. Even if a gun store is the most evil thing around, it is not their job, in American law.
It is a state legislature's job to justify banning a bayonet mount. Even if the legislature is all angels from heavan and will be Democratic until eternity, the legislature still has to have a good reason to act to limit any right... even what one might consider crummy rights.
That's kind of the entire underpinning of American law.
And things in law follow from that.
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I don't see how (one part of) the new NY gun law can be constitutional [View all]
cthulu2016
Jan 2013
OP
Government absolutely has a right to restrict what types of weapons are available
Hugabear
Jan 2013
#6
actually that's true - the wording say 'arms' NOT 'all and every type of arms'
samsingh
Jan 2013
#53
Of course, since it's so easily avoided (just remove the bayonet lug) it's hard to argue standing
Recursion
Jan 2013
#30
Don't really give a damn if it's unconstitutional if it saves lives... nt
Comrade_McKenzie
Jan 2013
#49