Prosecutors said the cards could be used to convert AR-15 style rifles into machine guns and that selling them without registering them like machine guns – making them subject to expensive government regulation – violated federal law.
, had the effect of invalidating machine gun restrictions dating back to the landmark National Firearms Act of 1934.But Howard saw things differently.would undermine this line of authority,” Howard ruled this week, adding that “his argument is unavailing.”
The judge said prosecutors had rightly pointed out that the Supreme Court case didn’t overturn its ruling on an earlier case,, which judges had relied on before when “the Court suggested that it would be ‘startling’ for the Second Amendment to protect machineguns.” Howard said the Supreme Court ruling on Heller “noted that the Second Amendment ‘only protects the right to own certain weapons.’” That ruling didn’t include a list of which weapons were or weren’t protected, but a string of courts since then had agreed that machine guns weren’t protected by the Second Amendment.
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