61% of Americans say there should be a nationwide ban on assault weapons, but the Supreme Court may be about to stop states from banning them.
as an appellate judge in 2011, dissenting with a majority opinion that found assault weapon bans to be constitutional.— the 2008 Supreme Court case that, for the first time ever, declared a personal right to own weapons through the Second Amendment — included a statement by the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who wrote that the Court’s ruling wasn’t meant to be interpreted as saying that local governments couldn’t impose any restrictions on gun ownership.
“Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose,”shouldn’t “cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions” that exist on guns — including on “dangerous and unusual weapons.” As Millhiser noted, Kavanaugh has previously suggested, in his dissenting rulings, that assault weapons don’t fit that category.
“If [Kavanaugh] still believes semiautomatic rifles aren’t particularly ‘dangerous and unusual,’ he is well-positioned to turn the opinion he wrote in 2011 into law,”Such a ruling would be in direct opposition to what a majority of Americans believe regarding assault weapons. According to a
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