CA: 2A doesn't apply to AK's

[GhostTX]

California’s 4th District (Division 1) Court of Appeal just held that the Second Amendment does not apply to semi-automatic firearms like “AK” platform rifles. Click here to read the decision. “We construe Heller as standing for the proposition that the right secured by the Second Amendment is ‘not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose’ (Heller, supra, 554 U.S. at p. 626), but is instead the right to possess and carry weapons typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes such as hunting or self-defense . . . We agree with James that the ban on AK series rifles does not impinge on rights protected by the Second Amendment because assault weapons ‘are at least as dangerous and unusual as the short-barreled shotgun’ (James, supra, 174 Cal.App.4th at p. 677), which Miller concluded (with apparent approval from Heller) was outside the scope of the Second Amendment’s guarantee. (James, at pp. 674-675.)”

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2013/10/robert-farago/breaking-ca-court-appeals-2a-doesnt-apply-ak-platform-rifles/

[IHaveAMustang]

Well crap. Here we go.

[GrayStangGT]

Might be time to look into stocking up on lowers and mags again to turn a profit on if this gets crazy. I actually found a case of pmags cleaning out the garage the other day that I forgot to sell during the last panic.

[black2002ls]

Wow...

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[FATHERFORD]

I just flat out don't understand how they can even come up with this.

[TexasT]

Shall not be Infringed . I think that is pretty explicite and self explanatory. Arms are arms and there is no limit. Why is that hard to understand?

[FATHERFORD]

Shall not be Infringed . I think that is pretty explicite and self explanatory. Arms are arms and there is no limit. Why is that hard to understand?

I like how they used self defense. If I had to choose any gun of mine for self defense, My ak would be my go to gun. Cheap easy to find powerful ammo and arguably the most reliable gun out there.

[Gargamel]

The left will not be happy until they have control over just about everything.

How big of a soda you can buy.

What kind of food you eat.

What medical procedure you can have.

Can't do all of the above when you have an armed populace that can tell you to go fuck yourself....

[Mach1Run]

An AK unusual? Doesn't every one have at least one.

[Mach1]

The way I read the 2A is that we should have tanks, planes, whatever the govt has.

[GhostTX]

The way I read the 2A is that we should have tanks, planes, whatever the govt has.

I'd argue the "bearing" part, meaning anything a person could carry. AK clearly falls into that category.

[Chas_svo]

I'd argue the "bearing" part, meaning anything a person could carry. AK clearly falls into that category.

It was not uncommon for individuals to have cannons at the time the Constitution was written. Please explain bearing this?

[Forever_frost]

The way I read the 2A is that we should have tanks, planes, whatever the govt has.

Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American... [T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.
Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.

[Forever_frost]

It was not uncommon for individuals to have cannons at the time the Constitution was written. Please explain bearing this?

As a matter of fact, that's where a lot of the weapons in the war came from. Citizens had cannon and other weapons that would be considered artillery these days.

[Broncojohnny]

Supreme Court has already said this is bullshit.