Poor Huffpo.<\/p>\n
Heller, McDonald and Bruen are Affecting How State Legislatures View Pending Gun Control Legislation.<\/a><\/p>\n [Heller and McDonald] allowed opponents to wage new battles against longstanding gun\u00a0laws. When District Judge Roger Benitez overturned California\u2019s 34-year-old assault weapons ban two years ago, he pointed to Heller, saying that under the decision, \u201cit is obvious that the California assault weapon ban is unconstitutional.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Because the Heller ruling applied to guns in common use, the sheer volume of semi-automatic rifles in America protects them under the Second Amendment, according to Mark Oliva, a spokesperson for the National Shooting Sports Federation.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThere are currently 24.4 million of these rifles in circulation today,\u201d Oliva said. \u201cTo put that into context for you, there are more of these rifles in circulation today than there are F-150s on the road.\u201d \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n Eight more states have laws similar to California\u2019s assault weapons ban that could be affected if the Supreme Court ultimately weighs in.<\/em><\/p>\n The expectation that these laws may be doomed is already complicating the politics of passing new ones like them.<\/em><\/p>\n In New Mexico, Democratic Gov. Michelle Luj\u00e1n Grisham has repeatedly urged the legislature to send her an assault weapons ban to sign this session, but\u00a0lawmakers tabled the effort\u00a0\u2014 partly over concerns that it wouldn\u2019t withstand scrutiny in federal court.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s absolutely no point to passing new laws which federal courts will strike down and which are clearly going to be deemed unconstitutional,\u201d state Sen. Joseph Cervantes, a Democrat, tweeted last month.<\/em><\/p>\n With those lawsuits still playing out, the future of gun\u00a0policy remains in flux. But that legal panorama makes it hard to imagine clear lanes for reform in the near future.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re in a very difficult spot with that Bruen ruling,\u201d said Miranda Viscoli, co-president of New Mexicans to Prevent Gun\u00a0Violence. \u201cEven though it was only about concealed carry, it\u2019s just made everybody afraid who wants to pass common sense gun\u00a0violence prevention legislation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2014 Roque Planas and Paul Blumenthal in\u00a0How the Courts Are Strangling Gun Reform<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Poor Huffpo. Heller, McDonald and Bruen are Affecting How State Legislatures View Pending Gun Control Legislation. [Heller and McDonald] allowed opponents to wage new battles against longstanding gun\u00a0laws. When District Judge Roger Benitez overturned California\u2019s 34-year-old assault weapons ban two years ago, he pointed to Heller, saying that under the decision, \u201cit is obvious that … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courts","category-crap-for-brains","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91309,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91308\/revisions\/91309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}