USA v. Tamori Morgan: potential tip of the spear to GCA/FOPA/NFA reform/repeal as it relates to machine guns?

[letsget86d]

Cool to see a court faithfully apply Bruen and other decisions when many are going out of their way to avoid doing so. I'll be keeping up with this one.

 

[Moonpie]

Sorry to be a negative voice but there is NO WAY the fed.gov will EVER allow mg's out in general use. The feds seem to have a particular burr under their saddles about f/a.
Feds will just keep appeals going until they get the ruling they want.
Endless pockets and time.

 

[letsget86d]

No offense taken. It is certainly clear that any progress at all will be slow, painful, and uncertain. For progress to even be possible, we have to at least start somewhere though. I've been surprised by SCOTUS in a good way more than once in the last 4 years and I am open to being surprised again.

 

[Mohawk600]

I would tend to agree that availability will probably never happen but a step to at least bringing prices down would be to allow the general purchase of post 86 guns. Maybe some reform will happen.

 

[G O B]

The clear meaning of the 2nd is that citizens are allowed the same weapons as a common soldier. The Magna Carta is the inspiration, as it allowed long bows to owned by common citizens.

 

[etmo]

The failure was the government's stupidity trying to freeze technology back in 1792.

The fact that we won this case doesn't mean we will continue to win on the appeal, it just means the stupid argument [that only weapons in existence in 1792 are protected] is going extinct.

The appeal will be much more challenging to win. I believe we'll lose this on appeal.

The good news: We're actually winning cases about freaking MGs. We need to push those limits. We need people to think MGs are a normal thing that normal people should be able to own (which they sort of are, 3/4 of a million of them, and that's after decades of persecution against MGs).

It's the same tactic the left uses -- go for the extreme, and then the merely abnormal seems normal. When we start winning cases about MGs, it's much more likely that we'll win cases surrounding suppressors or cases against "assault weapons" bans.

 

[Rafe]

It wouldn't hurt anything if movies stopped making it look like MGs were easy to get and that every criminal who wants one can gear-up his entire crew overnight for no more money than buying serial-number-filed stolen Glocks. I fully believe that at least 33% of public perception about the AR-15 platform is that it's full-auto.