Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto was joined by Gov. Tom Wolf, members of City Council and state Democratic lawmakers Friday in proposing legislation that would ban semiautomatic rifles and certain ammunition and firearms accessories within city limits.
Pittsburgh gun safety proposal would ban semiautomatic rifles
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Well now we can add that NJ is doing this Hmmm wonder if it will trickle across the country with all the snowflake ***** freaks out there.
These rifles are protected by the 2nd Amendment, as clarified in the D.C. v Heller decision......written by Justice Scalia, and for those morons on the lower court, he also explained in Friedman v Highland Park that AR-15 rifles are specifically protected by the 2nd Amendment.....
Scalia also wrote in Heller that the Second Amendment "is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose." He intentionally leaves it open for reasonable regulation of firearms, including "the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons." This was the basis for Friedman, which, if I remember correctly, Scalia and Thomas lost; Highland Park's ban was upheld.
My cousin and her husband operate a farm (coincidentally, in Pennsylvania) and they regularly rely on a semiautomatic rifle to keep coyotes and other predators away from their sheep. I think she has a good argument for being able to keep her rifle out there in the sticks, but in the middle of a city of 800,000 people, I'm not convinced that anyone needs an AR-15, cop-killer bullets, a drum magazine, or a bump stock. I would say their presence increases the danger to the community more than it increases the safety of the holder.
Oh, and
the article also mentions that the proposal "would permit courts to temporarily prohibit a person deemed at risk by police or family members from possessing a gun," which I am all for.