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The rulings in Maryland and Oregon come amid a shifting legal landscape in the wake of a Supreme Court decision that has imposed new limits on gun regulation.

In the wake of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision last year that significantly limits what the government can do to restrict guns, states led by Democrats have scrambled to circumvent or test the limits of the ruling. A few have approved new gun restrictions. Oregon even passed a ballot initiative to ban high-capacity ammunition magazines.

But this week, supporters of the new gun measures suffered a pair of setbacks, underscoring the rippling effect of the court’s decision.

On Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Va., ruled that a 10-year-old Maryland law related to licensing requirements for handguns was unconstitutional.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Under the Maryland law, an applicant for a handgun license must meet four requirements. They must be at least 21 years old, a resident of the state, complete a gun safety course and undergo a background check to ensure they are not barred under federal or state law from owning a firearm.

An applicant must then fill out an application, pay a processing fee, and wait up to 30 days for a state official to issue a license.

The appeals court ruled that requiring applicants to wait up to 30 days for a handgun permit violated the constitutional rights of citizens, and “the law’s waiting period could well be the critical time in which the applicant expects to face danger.”

I fucking hate these cretins in our judiciary.

[–] Uglyhead 41 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Critical time where the applicant expects to face danger

I needs my guns the minute I needs them. Vending machines full of guns should be on every street corner so I have access to the firepower and ammunition I need at all times.

[–] PrinceWith999Enemies 13 points 1 year ago

-Andrew Ryan, founder of Rapture

[–] SpaceNoodle 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"We put the fun in no refund"

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[–] dual_sport_dork 7 points 1 year ago

No refunds!

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[–] farcaster 34 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Citizens wouldn't be facing so much danger if we didn't have guns everywhere..

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[–] Whoresradish 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am more offended by them saying you have to be 21 years old. If you are old enough to be drafted for the military then you should be old enough to have a firearm. Same with the right to vote.

[–] RGB3x3 3 points 1 year ago

You should have to be older to be drafted (or get rid of the draft entirely, which is my opinion).

Having the right to vote I don't think should confer you automatic rights to own a firearm. Voting is a much more powerful right in the first place.

Now, if you pay taxes on wages at all, you should be given the right to vote, such as working 16 year olds.

[–] Drivebyhaiku 12 points 1 year ago

This is basically how gun laws have worked in Canada for ages. Treating access to guns the same way you do cars just makes sense. Of course the ease of being able to smuggle weapons bought from the unregulated US sources has meant that gun crime here is still a major problem compared to countries who share borders with others with similar gun control laws. The majority of gun crime in Canada happens with illegally sourced weapons 85% of which has been sourced to guns purchased in the US. Mexico experiences a similar issue.

Gun pollution spreads over our borders and the US is simply big enough and self obsessed enough to not care. Every democratic nation has it's own version of the US Constitution and unlike when the US Constitution was written, democracies now make up the majority of government systems on the world stage. There are now a lot of democratic societies who have been stable and just fine without massive amounts of citizen gun ownership. In a very real way American gun law structured as it is interferes with our country's ability to address guns on our own democratic and constitutional grounds.

Democracy and freedoms of the kind the US bills itself on is now considered pretty basic worldwide. Anyone operating on an originalist veiw really needs to unbury their head from the sand and realize how much the world has changed since it was written.

[–] jordanlund 12 points 1 year ago

21 to buy a handgun. Rifles you only have to be 18. Quite a few states are like that.

[–] interceder270 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

"Sorry bro, you're going to have to wait for the first amendment to kick in."

"Yeah, we're gonna have to quarter soldiers here. Sorry, you don't get 3rd amendment protections for another month."

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[–] HessiaNerd 5 points 1 year ago

Depleted Uranium ammo was not a thing until the 40's. Not long enough to have a historical basis for banning civilians from owning them.

[–] JustZ 5 points 1 year ago

Me too. They just gloss over three fourths of the amendment.

Well regulated.

Milita.

To protect the security of the state.

These words mean nothing to conservatives, they read them right out of the Constitution and then claim they are adhering to strictly to the text.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Why do you think law abiding citizens should be subjected to waiting periods to exercise their constitutional rights?

[–] FlyingSquid 9 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Why do you think law abiding citizens should be gassed, arrested and shot at for exercising their constitutional right to petition the government against grievances? Because Trump sure enjoyed doing those things and he says he's going to do it even more if he gets re-elected. And then there's the Republican love of cruel and unusual punishments. And, of course, there's Mike Johnson and other Republicans denying that there is or should be a separation between church and state.

Seems like maybe the people who are supposed to protect your constitutional right to own a gun don't really care about other constitutional rights.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Point out the part of my comment where I said that

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[–] stevestevesteve 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

What a lot of whataboutism. I'm against all of that, too, but I can also be against limits on my rights of self defense.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The constitutional right to acquire arms immediately and without precondition, I see. Just like the constitutional right to say anything, at any time, without any consequences.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Because it makes the world safer. Same reason you need a fence around a pool, even though the pursuit of happiness is protected by the constitution (for me, happiness is unbridled access to a pool).

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Same way as law abiding citizens need to wait 21 years, goes through firearm training, and gone through background check to exercise their constitutional rights. If 30 days is such a long time to wait and considered unconstitutional, why not lower the age requirement to 12 years old? Why need firearm training? Why need background check?

[–] FlyingSquid 4 points 1 year ago

That's what Republicans want. No gun control regulations at all. Anyone, according to them, should be able to buy a gun at any age at any time anywhere.

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[–] SheeEttin 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I think SCOTUS might reverse that. I don't think there was any recent case concerning waiting periods.

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[–] FlyingSquid 32 points 1 year ago

They had gun control in the "Wild West." Many towns didn't allow guns within the borders. But even that era that Republicans love so much had too much regulation for them.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Oregon's law was terrible and needed to be overturned ASAP. It basically gave sherriffs, the most ulta-conservative people in the state, the power to decide who did and didn't get guns. The conspiracy minded part of me thinks measure 114 was put on the ballot to set gun control efforts back by 6 to 8 years, and it succeeded.

[–] jordanlund 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was written and proposed by an ultra religious movement too... You can be tax free or take positions in governing. Pick one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I sure wish that were ever upheld.

[–] Fades 5 points 1 year ago

they don't want us libs to arm ourselves

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[–] Fades 15 points 1 year ago (21 children)

As a gun owner myself, I support the licensing, the high capacity mags ban won't do a damn thing though. If you've ever seen a 10rd 556 mag it's small as hell and you can stuff lots in pockets and such. It won't stop a damn thing, especially with coward cops who just listen to the action and do nothing.

if that's what it takes then fine but why can't we come up with shit that actually makes sense instead of these 'whatever we can get' stuff. I realize republican trash makes that nigh impossible though. Fucking dumb as hell

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For a moment I misread the title as something about Counter Strike somehow having something to do with gun control measures and got very confused....

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The Oregon one makes sense since it is very clearly codified in their Constitution.

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