Oregon ballot measure to ban "Assault" Weapons

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[FONT=&amp]SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES[/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA et al. v. HELLER[/FONT]

certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the district of columbia circuit

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No. 07–290. Argued March 18, 2008—Decided June 26, 2008

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[FONT=&amp]District of Columbia law bans handgun possession by making it a crime to carry an unregistered firearm and prohibiting the registration of handguns; provides separately that no person may carry an unlicensed handgun, but authorizes the police chief to issue 1-year licenses; and requires residents to keep lawfully owned firearms unloaded and dissembled or bound by a trigger lock or similar device. Respondent Heller, a D. C. special policeman, applied to register a handgun he wished to keep at home, but the District refused. He filed this suit seeking, on Second Amendment grounds, to enjoin the city from enforcing the bar on handgun registration, the licensing requirement insofar as it prohibits carrying an unlicensed firearm in the home, and the trigger-lock requirement insofar as it prohibits the use of functional firearms in the home. The District Court dismissed the suit, but the D. C. Circuit reversed, holding that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to possess firearms and that the city’s total ban on handguns, as well as its requirement that firearms in the home be kept nonfunctional even when necessary for self-defense, violated that right. [/FONT]
[FONT=&amp][I]Held: [/I][/FONT]
[FONT=&amp][I] 1. The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home. Pp. 2–53.[/I][/FONT]
[I] (a) The Amendment’s prefatory clause announces a purpose, but does not limit or expand the scope of the second part, the operative clause. The operative clause’s text and history demonstrate that it connotes an individual right to keep and bear arms. Pp. 2–22. [/I]
[FONT=&amp][I] (b) The prefatory clause comports with the Court’s interpretation of the operative clause. The “militia” comprised all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense. The Antifederalists feared that the Federal Government would disarm the people in order to disable this citizens’ militia, enabling a politicized standing army or a select militia to rule. The response was to deny Congress power to abridge the ancient right of individuals to keep and bear arms, so that the ideal of a citizens’ militia would be preserved. Pp. 22–28. [/I][/FONT]
[FONT=&amp][I] © The Court’s interpretation is confirmed by analogous arms-bearing rights in state constitutions that preceded and immediately followed the Second Amendment . Pp. 28–30. [/I][/FONT]
[FONT=&amp][I] (d) The Second Amendment ’s drafting history, while of dubious interpretive worth, reveals three state Second Amendment proposals that unequivocally referred to an individual right to bear arms. Pp. 30–32. [/I][/FONT]
[FONT=&amp][I] (e) Interpretation of the Second Amendment by scholars, courts and legislators, from immediately after its ratification through the late 19th century also supports the Court’s conclusion. Pp. 32–47. [/I][/FONT]
[FONT=&amp][I] (f) None of the Court’s precedents forecloses the Court’s interpretation. Neither [I]United States v. [I]Cruikshank, 92 U. S. 542 , nor [I]Presser v. [I]Illinois, 116 U. S. 252 , refutes the individual-rights interpretation. [I]United States v. [I]Miller, 307 U. S. 174 , does not limit the right to keep and bear arms to militia purposes, but rather limits the type of weapon to which the right applies to those used by the militia, [I]i.e., those in common use for lawful purposes. Pp. 47–54.


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Anyways...SCOTUS doesn't agree with Stan.

Really miss Scalia...

In looking at (f) above, M4s should be available to us mere civilians (according to United States vs Miller) since the M4 is in "common use" within the military (both State Militias and Federal standing army).