US 2nd Amendment Under Assault, Freedom Firearms Guns Defense

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Sat May 13 08:59:07 PDT 2023


Videos: Biden's Unconstitutional US Feds now going door to door
trying to search and seize FRT triggers from lawful owners, based
on purchase or delivery data unconstitutionally obtained under
unconstitutional firearms regulation and policy. Some owners
on video correctly telling them to fuck off.

Blueprints for lightning links, drop in auto sears DIAS, FRTs,
bump stocks, suppressors, extended magazines, and entire firearms...
all of them CNC, milling machine, and 3D-Printable... have been freely
available on the internet for decades.

Gun banners, bans, and confiscators are not about guns,
they're always about their larger plans to roll out their
own flaver of general totalitarian tyrannies. A disarmed
and servile populace is simply easier to enslave.


Judge Finds Federal Age-21 Rule For Handgun Purchases Unconstitutional

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.524643/gov.uscourts.vaed.524643.47.0.pdf
https://starkrealities.substack.com/p/the-2nd-amendments-misconstrued-militia
https://www.reuters.com/legal/minnesotas-21-year-age-minimum-handgun-carry-permits-struck-down-2023-03-31/
https://thereload.com/ninth-circuit-rules-californias-under-21-rifle-ban-unconstitutional/

A 54-year-old federal prohibition on the sale of guns to Americans
between 18 and 20 years old has been ruled unconstitutional by a
federal judge in Richmond, Virginia. The Justice Department is
expected to appeal and ask for the ruling to be put on hold as the
case is further adjudicated.

The case has three plaintiffs, all between 18 and 20 years old. One,
John "Corey" Fraser, was refused when he attempted to buy a Glock 19x
from a Federal Firearm Licensed Dealer (FFL). The other two want to
buy a handgun but haven't tried, in light of Fraser's experience.

The challenged provision of the Gun Control Act of 1968 didn't
prohibit possession by 18- to 20-year-olds, it only made it illegal
for FFL's to sell handguns to them. Rifles and shotguns have no such
federal restriction.

The ruling is the latest in a string of defeats for gun-control
measures. The trend is driven by the application of a new
constitutionality test prescribed in the Supreme Court's 2022 Bruen
decision.

This week's ruling is particularly significant because it's one of the
first that uses Bruen to kill a federal law, as opposed to a state
one. In February, a federal court applying the Bruen test shot down a
30-year-old law banning gun ownership by people subject to
domestic-violence restraining orders

Using the Bruen test, a gun-control law can only be upheld if the
government demonstrates that it's "consistent with the nation's
historical tradition of firearm regulation." Further, when examining
the record, judges are compelled to give the most weight to historical
sources from the era of the Second Amendment's 1791 ratification.

In Thursday's ruling, Judge Robert E. Payne of the US District Court
for the Eastern District of Virginia concluded the government's
defense of the age-21 law failed the Bruen test:

    "The government has not presented any evidence of age-based
restrictions on the purchase or sale of firearms from the colonial
era, Founding or Early Republic,” wrote Payne in a 71-page decision.

While the Supreme Court's 2008 Heller decision found that the right to
'keep arms' isn't exclusively tied to militia service, Payne
scrutinized the history of militia laws -- and particularly, age
stipulations in those laws -- as part of his review of the historical
tradition of gun regulation relative to the challenged law.

Those laws blew holes in the government's case. "At the time
surrounding ratification of the Second Amendment, 16 or 18 was the age
of majority for militia service throughout the nation," wrote Payne,
who was nominated by President George H.W. Bush.

Elsewhere, he noted that, “if the Court were to exclude
18-to-20-year-olds from the Second Amendment’s protection, it would
impose limitations on the Second Amendment that do not exist with
other constitutional guarantees."

Gun control advocates railed against the decision. "Research shows us
that 18- to 20-year-olds commit gun homicides at triple the rate of
adults 21 years and older," said Janet Carter, senior director of
issues and appeals at Everytown Law. She added that the age-21
handgun-purchase law "is not just an essential tool for preventing gun
violence, it is also entirely constitutional.”

This decision is very important, but it doesn't yet settle the issue
nationally, as judges have been ruling in both directions where age
restrictions are concerned:

    In December, a federal judge in the Western District of Louisiana
upheld the same federal restriction that Payne found constitutional
this week.
    Florida's age-21 law for any gun purchase was upheld in March by
an Eleventh Circuit panel.
    A federal judge ruled in March against a Minnesota law
establishing a minimum age of 21 to qualify for a handgun-carry
permit.
    Last year, the Ninth Circuit ruled against California's age-21
rule for buying centerfire semiautomatic rifles.

The patchwork of decisions could make the issue ripe for Supreme Court
consideration. In the meantime, amid all that judicial inconsistency,
state legislatures have been actively installing or considering new
age-21 restrictions. For example:

    In April, Colorado set age 21 as the minimum for buying any firearm.
    Earlier this month, the Oregon House passed a bill that would
raise the minimum age for buying semiautomatic weapons to 21.
    This week, a Texas legislative committee advanced a bill setting
21 as the minimum for buying semiautomatic rifles.


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