Maryland-copy "assault weapon ban" coming to DE
PostPosted:Tue Mar 20, 2018 6:50 pm
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The usual suspects are at it again. This bill doesn't appear to have been introduced yet, but it's a conscious copy of the Maryland 2013 ban, with all the insanity that comes with that.
Possibly a lightning rod by the electorally-invulnerable to help them sneak through a "more reasonable compromise."
It's really kind of sad that the author (Sen. Townsend) has a bar license and holds himself out as practicing law. This is a pathetic level of legislative drafting, pretty obviously just a "let's throw it at the wall and see what sticks" kind of deal. Um, leaving aside the total and flagrant disrespect for enumerated constitutional rights, of course...
Looking ahead to inevitable litigation: "So, you banned the AR-15, huh? Funny, AR-15s had been on the market and freely available to civilians for over 20 years when Article I, Section 20 was added to the Delaware Constitution, and that was over 30 years ago. We aren't talking about some devastating new technology that the Framers in the musket era couldn't have dreamed of. I mean, you'd think if the General Assembly meant to carve out AR-15s from being protected 'arms,' they might have said something about it..."
The usual suspects are at it again. This bill doesn't appear to have been introduced yet, but it's a conscious copy of the Maryland 2013 ban, with all the insanity that comes with that.
Possibly a lightning rod by the electorally-invulnerable to help them sneak through a "more reasonable compromise."
It's really kind of sad that the author (Sen. Townsend) has a bar license and holds himself out as practicing law. This is a pathetic level of legislative drafting, pretty obviously just a "let's throw it at the wall and see what sticks" kind of deal. Um, leaving aside the total and flagrant disrespect for enumerated constitutional rights, of course...
Looking ahead to inevitable litigation: "So, you banned the AR-15, huh? Funny, AR-15s had been on the market and freely available to civilians for over 20 years when Article I, Section 20 was added to the Delaware Constitution, and that was over 30 years ago. We aren't talking about some devastating new technology that the Framers in the musket era couldn't have dreamed of. I mean, you'd think if the General Assembly meant to carve out AR-15s from being protected 'arms,' they might have said something about it..."