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Eleanors38

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1. On "vagueness and unenforceable," the history on bans of "assault weapons"
Wed Oct 5, 2016, 03:05 PM
Oct 2016

is one of hazy definitions as to what constitutes the weapon type; when is a gun a "black gun" (another puff of fog) illegal while other semi-auto rifles are not? This may be why Dan Baum declares the modular AR-15 "the gun Congress can't ban." It is a shape-shifter, and the courts don't like laws are fiddled with like color hues and contrast on a late 50s color T.V. set.

On "reinterpreting" definitions (tuning the T.V.?), this is clearly a 5th Amendment frat house blow out (a prospect of little concern to extremist banners), since gun sellers have come to rely on the strictures set by the legislature so as not to run afoul of the law; to traipse in later, like the A.G.has, is to subvert not only the letter of the law, but to mock also the entire basis of law-making. And gun sellers have no recourse but to sue in an attempt to REGAIN due process. Monetary damages should result from this attempt to legislate by one-person fiat.

Incidentally, Ms. Healey is still all in for keeping marijuana use a criminal act. No surprise.

EDIT: "...law 'redefined copycats'..." Heh, heh. I saw that.

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