Re: What the heck did the Supreme Court do???

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> >>  However, they
> >> can still put limits on what you can own and what you can do with
what
> >> you
> >> own.
> >
> > I don't see the limits on what you may own...
> > They flat out said a BAN on any SINGLE type of weapon is
> > Unconstitutional....
> >
> >
> If I'm not mistaken, and I may be, right now DC has a ban on
semiautomatic
> weapons.  From what I've read that ban may be able to stay in place. The
> ruling allows the owner****p of a gun in your home for protection without
the
> insane rules that DC had before.  It does not allow anything else (OC,
CC)
> and it still allows cities to setup rules and regulations as to what you
can
> and cannot own.  If I'm wrong someone correct me.
>

In principle, yes.  What has changed is the landscape by which new and
existing laws can be tested for constitutionality.  For example, the antis
can no longer claim that people do not have a constitutional right to
possess personal arms commonly in use by the average foot soldier.  The
arguments for and against gun laws will have to be made on the basis of
public benefit vs infringement much as free speech laws are evaluated. 
The
antis can no longer claim the right isn't individual which of course they
have for generations, and I can see this having the effect of localizing
many and perhaps most of these kinds of laws.  For example, I can see bans
on machine guns in NYC to be upheld in this environment if the courts so
rule.  More at risk are the global federal restrictions on manufacture and
im****t, which constitute nation-wide de-facto bans on entire cl***** of
weapons.  As for private possession in the home, it appears now that even
if
some localities are going to require licenses it's going to be on a
shall-issue basis (more or less) and this is huge.

b.