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You Have the Right to Bear Arms, Not “Electrical” Arms, Court Declares

posted by janrinok on Tuesday March 10 2015, @11:28AM   
from the founding-fathers-didn't-have-tazers dept.

AnonTechie writes:

Massachusetts' ban on the private possession of stun guns—an "electrical weapon" under the statute—does not violate the Second Amendment right to bear arms, the state's top court has ruled.

The decision says ( http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/stungunMA-ruling.pdf ) (PDF) that the US Constitution's framers never envisioned the modern stun-gun device, first patented in 1972. The top court said stun guns are not suitable for military use, and that it did not matter whether state lawmakers have approved the possession of handguns outside the home.

The court, ruling in the case of a Massachusetts woman caught with stun gun, said the stun gun is a "thoroughly modern invention" not protected by the Second Amendment, although handguns are protected.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/you-have-the-right-to-bear-arms-not-electrical-arms-court-declares/

• Re:English motherf*ckers! Do you speak it? Re:English motherf*ckers! Do you speak it? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 10 2015, @06:40PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 10 2015, @06:40PM (#155591)

  Dial back the rabid political slant please. We get it, you dont like the word/label democrat. Please keep the absurd redefinition to yourself, it adds nothing to the discourse.

  It is easy to say it is an absurd ruling without throwing shit all over the place.

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• Re:English motherf*ckers! Do you speak it? (Score: 2) by jmorris on Tuesday March 10 2015, @06:46PM

  by jmorris (4844) on Tuesday March 10 2015, @06:46PM (#155594)

  So you are going with the illiterate savages theory?

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