The rate of fire argument is suddenly becoming the new talking point. Rate of fire is not defined by any federal or state statute. The mechanics of the firearm are on the other hand clearly delineated by multiple federal laws. constitutional or not the only differentiating factor is does...
https://sd25.senate.ca.gov/news/2024-02-14/senator-portantino-introduces-bill-requiring-annual-registration-firearms
I wonder if this isn’t a bridge too far for even the most brazen of courts. A state implementing an annual use tax /or a possession tax creatively defined as a reoccurring...
So in the world of theoretical?
So if the ninth does what they like to do…. And the en banc overturns the district court ruling. And Scotus takes the case under review with an appeal. A grant and vacate could be issued reinstating the district courts ruling?
I’m curious if justice Alito sees this case as a quick opportunity to affirm the 5th ruling in its entirety or advise the lower courts and keep the guardrails up preventing other pending cases from receiving a distorted form of THT from a lower court looking to play games with similar details
The dormant commerce clause is colliding with state police powers.
I suspect or i am hopeful that National Pork Producers VS Ross (CA) will yield some insight into to power of states to influence commerce, products and production outside of their state boundaries.
States with oversized...
Ive always wondered this, as well if there are 630k fully automatic arms in private law abiding hands why then are the rest of the law abiding civilians denied the opportunity to pay the tax and secure a fully automatic if they so choose?
There might be more fully automatic weapons in...
I don’t think so
Justice Sotomayor May not have the patience or humor deal with something she sees as resolved. Unless the state or ca2 can come up with a unique and convincing argument I’d read this as a shot across the bow of her patience has run out and there are better battles to try and...
I think what prom=pted my interest in this and how CA's varying rules/ bans affect the overall marketplace was in reading some of the breifs and the SCOTUS statements during orals a few weeks ago.
on automobiles, CA is granted authority ot regulate emissions through the clean air act by...
I’ve always wondered where does a state derive the power to ban? The act of a state banning a product affects interstate commerce. A state regulating or putting conditions on sales of any product is one thing. If it is demonstrably a risk to health or society. But that would seem to be a...
i always have found the argument that "the government can ban" or cease to accept registrations while grandfathering in previously legal registrations seems to run counter to equal application, it essitally creates to classes of citizens, those who were allowed to pat he tax and those who we ban...
Dump the Bruen case on a thursday or friday, its less controversial and will fizzle over a weekend news cycle.
EPA comes out on a tuesday..... then dump the dobbs case thursday or friday before the 4th of july weekend 5 days later the summer news cycle in in play and nobody gets back...