Legal decision casts doubt on Maryland’s assault weapons ban

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1. Amazing.

From the article:

“I think it’s just common sense that the Second Amendment does not give people a right to own military-style assault weapons,” he said.

Did this guy get his legal expertise from a crackerjack box? The second amendment doesn't 'give' anyone the right to do anything. It is intended to protect the right, from people in positions of power like him.

In a strongly worded dissent, Judge Robert B. King wrote: “Let’s be real: The assault weapons banned by Maryland’s [law] are exceptionally lethal weapons of war” and as such, he said, not necessarily protected by the Second Amendment.

"Exceptionally lethal weapons of war". Right. Which is why no army in the world issues semi-automatic weapons to their troops in any way meaningful enough to support his point.

It sounds very much like a political opinion to me, rather than an opinion based in facts and the law.