Knuckle Dragger
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- May 7, 2012
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If that were the case, wouldn't they have taken Friedman v Highland Park? If they take a civil case on the stun gun issue, scariness of the weapon must be the deciding factor.
I don't know why SCOTUS didn't take Friedman, or any other case for that matter. I think that 'assault weapons' are too much of a hot potatoe for them right now and they may want to see more lower court actions.
A stun gun case in Massachusetts would be good because it can leverage Caetano and probably be successful without going all the way to the Supreme Court. The language in Caetano is easily applicable to an AWB case. Having the statute overturned using Caetano would only provide more weight to an AWB.