Posted on Apr 5, 2022
The Unconstitutionality of Unfinished Receiver Bans – Jamie G. McWilliam
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Marking it to read later. As you said, it's a long one but looks promising
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Here's the gist of it (from the Conclusion):
When it comes to state regulations on unfinished receivers, the breadth of the restrictions varies. However, when the state law amounts to a ban on the possession of firearm components, it is almost certainly unconstitutional under the original meaning of the Second Amendment. Because practice of assembling firearms at home stretches back to the founding, when almost all firearms were privately manufactured, the drafters of the amendment would have understood that the right of the people to bear arms would require a right for them to first construct them.
On the other hand, states do have a compelling interest in enforcing their own laws and protecting the public safety. Thus, for states seeking to regulate unfinished receivers in the future, great care must be made to tailor their laws to these interests. Otherwise, they risk unduly and unconstitutionally burdening their citizens’ fundamental Second Amendment rights.
When it comes to state regulations on unfinished receivers, the breadth of the restrictions varies. However, when the state law amounts to a ban on the possession of firearm components, it is almost certainly unconstitutional under the original meaning of the Second Amendment. Because practice of assembling firearms at home stretches back to the founding, when almost all firearms were privately manufactured, the drafters of the amendment would have understood that the right of the people to bear arms would require a right for them to first construct them.
On the other hand, states do have a compelling interest in enforcing their own laws and protecting the public safety. Thus, for states seeking to regulate unfinished receivers in the future, great care must be made to tailor their laws to these interests. Otherwise, they risk unduly and unconstitutionally burdening their citizens’ fundamental Second Amendment rights.
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The 2nd amendment was written to protect the citizen from the over reach if Government control and stop the removal of the rights of the people. Biden Administration has put all out assault in the right on the citizens and working class with their agenda, Biden refuses to accept blame for the cost of inflation and point it in the pandemic and war in Ukraine when he was the one to kill drilling permits and the Keystone pipeline with open boarders in his first day in office. Please keep in mind the pipeline was paid for by the tax payer under Trump along with the board wall, Biden has put the citizen of this country in danger with his reckless policy and he and the whole DNC administration should be remove from office and trump reinstated to correct the problems Biden created. If you look at what taken place over the last 7 year the DNC has done everything they can to remove Trump which in my belief rigged the election. Is it not time that we the people of the United States of America voice is heard and the Government work for us and not the Government getting rich at the cost of the working class tax payer.
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