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"The legal battle brewing over Contra Costa's ban on the sale of .50-caliber rifles may soon come to an end."
"This week, both parties signed papers agreeing to cancel the scheduled Nov. 4 court hearing on the case. A coalition of gun-rights advocates had filed a petition to block the county from enforcing the ban." ...
"Both sides have indicated that a recently approved state law -- banning the sale, manufacture, distribution, or possession of a .50-caliber Browning Machine Gun (BMG) rifle without a permit in California -- pre-empts the county law." ... -------
"An ordinance which... makes the peaceful enjoyment of freedoms which the Constitution guarantees contingent upon the uncontrolled will of an official — as by requiring a permit or license which may be granted or withheld in the discretion of such official — is an unconstitutional censorship or prior restraint upon the enjoyment of those freedoms. And our decisions have made clear that a person faced with such an unconstitutional licensing law may ignore it and engage with impunity in the exercise of the right of free expression for which the law purports to require a license." — SHUTTLESWORTH v. CITY OF BIRMINGHAM AL |
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Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. — James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 46 |
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