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You have the right to bear arms, but what about “electrical” arms or stun guns?
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Mark A. Taff
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But what about electrical arms like stun guns, invented in 1972? Are they covered under this line of Supreme Court reasoning? Currently, that isn't clear.
The Supreme Court is being asked to decide—in a case challenging a Massachusetts ban on the private possession of a stun gun, or a "portable device or weapon from which an electrical current, impulse, wave or beam is designed to incapacitate temporarily, injure or kill...." The challenge before the justices comes in a burgeoning era in which a hodgepodge of weapons are being constructed at home DIY-style and via 3D-printing technology. |
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mickey
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Michigan's Court of Appeals says the SCOTUS interpretation in Heller defeats stun gun bans:
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2012/06/27/michigan-court-zaps-state-stun-gun-ban/ |
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