NYC Judge says "2nd amendment doesnt exist in this courtroom"
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The guy bought gun parts and was building guns and failed to register them. You need to register your firearms in New York within 30 days, where he lived. He made thirteen guns and didn't bother registering them. That seems to be what all those charges pertain to.
So I guess what the judge was saying, as dumb as it sounds, is referring to how the 10th Amendment allows stipulations on other Amendments so the defense's argument of "but the 2nd Amendment lets us own guns" doesn't hold water since he failed the other half and failed to register his weapons since that's what the law is in New York.
This is just based off of the article, I haven't read the court transcript to see if it has further context.
Edit: lol I give a tl;dr of the article so people don't have to read it, and I get downvoted. Are we at the point we gotta act like the wokies and put a fat disclaimer beforehand "what I am about to summarize does not reflect my own values...." if just an article summary gets so many people riled up.
This is New York City, gun licenses don't exist there. And if it isn't the state ensuring that, it's the city. You have to bribe one of two people at any given time (usually both) to get pistol permits or be the child of a police officer.
I am also looking for the transcript though, if you find it send it to me because I have a hard time seeing anyone actually saying that.
Yeah the judge said a dumb. Shall. Not. Be. Infringed.
I mean, people let these retarded laws be passed for decades now. A lot of infringement was allowed, which is how we get to the part like this where the court can in fact say dumb shit and have the legal framework to be correct on it.
That's why you never concede an inch. Because it takes 10x the force to get rid of garbage than it does to prevent it from coming to pass to begin with.
It's even worse than that: Infringement is thanks to the 10th Amendment but if you knock down one of the Amendments of the Bill of Rights, it makes the rest more susceptible for the same. And there could be further problems if you get rid of the Amendment that reserves power to the states - we could end up with a much more powerful federal government.
So even if you painstakingly got rid of all the garbage, there is no way to prevent it from building back up again.
Their violation of the 2nd isn't because of the 10th. That's just rationale to run this person through the system. It's true there has been debate on that forever (and if states just decide not to follow the courts then we have fun times ahead) but from the perspective of federal courts, incorporation is settled law especially when it comes to the bill of rights.
We should make all laws expire automatically.
Right to privacy only applies to killing babies, not owning dangerous shooty things.
none of that is legal
It’s all a bunch of bullshit anyways. We don’t let states determine their definition of the 1st amendment so why the fuck do we let them determine what the 2nd means? All gun laws are unconstitutional