The trouble is that state-based regs don't work if other states don't have them. Most of Chicago's guns come from NW Indiana, for example.
Question: Can a city or a state ban assault weapons like the AR-15? Not just the sell of them, but possession or ownership? Or does it have to be Congress?
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Maybe the answer is that legislation at any level is never going to come to save us, and that we should look at a wide-ranging boycott - not of gun makers and sellers, but of anyone who does business with them.
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I agree. Absolutely
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Of course states can ban. The General Assembly did so in Maryland a few years ago. Next, we intend to ban bump stocks, and pass other common sense gun legislation.
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That doesn’t stop someone from WV bringing one. We need a federal ban.
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True. You are absolutely right. We do need federal action. To get federal action, we need to elect better people to Congress & the White House. In the meantime, at the state level in Maryland, we will do all that is in our power to protect Marylanders.
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As a Marylander, raising 3 kiddos, I appreciate that!!
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State gun laws are challenged in federal courts. Since 1990 courts have predominantly sided with gun owners/industry. I don’t understand the legal ground, if guns are ubiquitous doesn’t that make people who don’t want to carry have to? What happened to the right to not carry?
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Yet another reason to deal with winter in Massachusetts. We also banned bump stocks. You know like Congress was going to do after Vegas?
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Queue gun toters saying the “AR-15 is not an assault rifle”
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All guns are weapons of "assault", it's just a semantics thing with the ARmalite model 15.
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I know but the second you call AR-15 an assault rifle, they get triggered and don’t hear anything else.
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Cause too many people think AR literally means assault rifle and it doesn't.
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It does not matter what the AR stands for. The weapon should be banned.
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If I thought that would stop these incidences from happening, I'd be all on it. But I don't. We need realistic legislation and regulation. More extensive background check, age restriction on purchases, ammunition regulation. Banning one type of "assault rifle " is shirtsighted
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Um, we do that all the time. Ever take off shoes at an airport? Stems from a specific incident. Passing regulatory control on one model would have a large precedent.
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Congress - Constitutional Right: Federal trumps State
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