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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Rules 2nd Amendment Does Not Apply to States

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The right to bear arms as defined in the Second Amendment does not apply to the states, so Massachusetts can regulate who can have firearms and how those weapons are to be stored, the state’s high court ruled Wednesday.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court unanimously dismissed two challenges to the state’s gun laws that require citizens to register with police departments before acquiring a firearm, as well as keeping guns stored in a locked container or equipped with a trigger lock.

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Wow this looks pretty serious..a Supreme Court ruling is no joke. The right to bear arms as defined in the Second Amendment does not apply to the states, so Massachusetts can regulate who can have firearms and how those weapons are to be stored. Will this start spreading to other states as well? Can't say st the moment...but surely something to watch out for.

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The states do have some right to issue regulations. The USSC declared this be so in Heller vs DC back in 2008, but did not clearly lay out just how far they could go.

The problem here is that the Massachusetts state Supreme Court seems to believe that the 2nd amendment doesn't apply to them, period, when obviously it does. The Bill of Rights was designed as a national level protection of rights for all citizens of the country. In fact, the stupidity of their argument in this case is that the existence of the 10th amendment should make this abundantly clear.

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Your right Maxmars. In a way, this looks like smoke and mirrors to me. Get everybody all POed over this judgement. Not everyone is this stupid. Like people can`t read the Bill of Rights and understand them? Is this nothing more then a way of gettings everyones attention away from something else that is going on? That ruling will never fly if it`s contested in the end. So why even try? I think something else is going on here.

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This is why you are a subject and not a citizen. To allow the state to have control of the only asset to a citizen that could overthrow a tyrannical government is to cede all checks and balances of power to the government itself. To give over control of your individual choice to arm and organize to a corrupt government bureaucrat is a disease Western Europe, Austrailia and some northern US states seem to be infected with. As you are quite aware, a government can pass and enforce anything on an unarmed people with no fear of organised revolt. Hence America saw the need for an armed citizenry apart from the Federal Army to ensure any chance of a dictatorship would be thwarted by the people. Muskets work far better than pitchforks against imposing armies, without or within.

Massachusetts is basically a socialist entity that few of the other states relate to. Let the communist states vote themselves into unarmed serfdom. Its worked well for their comrades in other communist states. They just might want to know that Trotsky, Obama and Lenin are neat and all on the college campus, but leave little to smile about once relegated to the collective farms. We in the rest of the states will ignore any attempt to infringe and confiscate arms with extreme prejudice and I know my state will have no problem reverting to our past nations' flag circa 1864.

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