U.S. appeals court blocks SAFE Act bullet limit

The SAFE Act was passed in New York state after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in 2012.

Thus, when New York and Connecticut toughened their assault weapons bans in 2013 after the Newtown massacre, the constitutionality of these laws wasn’t automatically assured.

In 2010, in a case called McDonald v. City of Chicago, the court extended the logic of Heller to state gun laws.

The laws were opposed by groups supporting gun rights, pistol permit holders and gun sellers.

Opponents are hoping the law will be taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court for a final ruling.

The Circuit Court accepted the notion that black guns are just another type of sporting rifle, and it was the acknowledgement that black guns are no different from other types of sporting guns that ultimately legitimized the assault-rifle bans in Connecticut and New York. No side, it seemed, was able to actually see the real issue at hand which is continued legislation aimed at the total elimination of citizens being allowed to arm themselves and which is supported by all three branches of the government.

The gun owners had argued that assault weapons are in common use and that they’re typically used by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes.

The ruling included statistics that semiautomatic assaul t eapons result in more numerous wounds, more serious wounds, and more victims; are disporportinately used in mass shootings; and disporportionately used to kill members of law enforcement.

The judges also reversed a lower court’s challenge to the SAFE Act based on a spelling error. More mass shootings in this country than days of the year are not “particularly rare events”.

The statement went on to say, “The Court upheld Judge Skretney’s decision that seven round magazine limit was an arbitrary number and unconstitutional”.

In its poll, Gallup asked 1,015 adults, age 18 or older, living in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, if they felt the laws on the sale of firearms should be more strict, less strict or stay the same as they are now. The court ruled that New York’s law regulating how many bullets can be loaded into a magazine does violate the 2nd Amendment, as does Connecticut’s law barring possession of non-semiautomatic Remington 7615 rifles.