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A Tough Year for Gun Owners, Another Looms on Horizon
The confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court in 2018 could have the most significant long-term impact on gun rights in the nation
America’s gun owners may be particularly eager to celebrate the end of 2018 next Monday night, because for Second Amendment activists, it has been a tough year, and with Democrats led by Nancy Pelosi preparing to take control of the U.S. House of Representatives, the next 12 months could be rough as well.
Certainly the biggest gun rights story of the year was the aftermath of the Valentine’s Day attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Seventeen students and adults lost their lives, and in the wake of that mass shooting, high school students staged walkouts, marched in cities across the country and found themselves coopted by the gun prohibition lobby.
Perhaps the most alarming reaction to the shooting came from retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, calling for the repeal of the Second Amendment.
That shooting prompted efforts to raise the minimum age for purchasing semiautomatic rifles and shotguns to 21. That gave rise to possibly the second biggest gun rights story of the year, which was passage of Initiative 1639 in Washington State. Largely bankrolled by a handful of wealthy Seattle-area elitists, the measure passed in November, thus classifying every semiautomatic rifle in Washington State as a so-called “semiautomatic assault rifle.” Even the news media declared that the new measure, which is being challenged in federal court by the Second Amendment Foundation and National Rifle Association, acknowledged that the measure will make the Evergreen State’s gun laws among the strictest in the nation.
But there is no doubt this victory will embolden the gun prohibition movement, which has already launched an effort to ban semi-autos in Florida and change the state constitution.
Over the weekend, the Seattle Times noted that the state Court of Appeals struck down a Seattle ordinance “that extended new rights to hotel workers, determining the ballot measure that enacted the law included provisions unrelated to each other.” By no small coincidence, many I-1639 critics contend it also violates the state’s single subject rule, but so far, nobody has challenged it on that argument.
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The confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court in 2018 could have the most significant long-term impact on gun rights in the nation
America’s gun owners may be particularly eager to celebrate the end of 2018 next Monday night, because for Second Amendment activists, it has been a tough year, and with Democrats led by Nancy Pelosi preparing to take control of the U.S. House of Representatives, the next 12 months could be rough as well.
Certainly the biggest gun rights story of the year was the aftermath of the Valentine’s Day attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Seventeen students and adults lost their lives, and in the wake of that mass shooting, high school students staged walkouts, marched in cities across the country and found themselves coopted by the gun prohibition lobby.
Perhaps the most alarming reaction to the shooting came from retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, calling for the repeal of the Second Amendment.
That shooting prompted efforts to raise the minimum age for purchasing semiautomatic rifles and shotguns to 21. That gave rise to possibly the second biggest gun rights story of the year, which was passage of Initiative 1639 in Washington State. Largely bankrolled by a handful of wealthy Seattle-area elitists, the measure passed in November, thus classifying every semiautomatic rifle in Washington State as a so-called “semiautomatic assault rifle.” Even the news media declared that the new measure, which is being challenged in federal court by the Second Amendment Foundation and National Rifle Association, acknowledged that the measure will make the Evergreen State’s gun laws among the strictest in the nation.
But there is no doubt this victory will embolden the gun prohibition movement, which has already launched an effort to ban semi-autos in Florida and change the state constitution.
Over the weekend, the Seattle Times noted that the state Court of Appeals struck down a Seattle ordinance “that extended new rights to hotel workers, determining the ballot measure that enacted the law included provisions unrelated to each other.” By no small coincidence, many I-1639 critics contend it also violates the state’s single subject rule, but so far, nobody has challenged it on that argument.
More at ...
A Tough Year for Gun Owners, Another Looms on Horizon - Liberty Park Press