No, it's my
first shot. You will not be able to stand what I can bring to this part of it.
The finding in US v. Miller was also not well informed as to the martial uses of the short shotgun -- they were in fact completely ignorant of its use to date, which was a matter of Army record. Since 1939, the military shotgun's record has grown: they run to longish sawed-offs a couple inches shorter than legal in the barrel, cylinder bored -- no choke, used in close terrain more or less as a reusable claymore mine.
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There was basis for Reno to suggest to Clinton that the bill contained any provisions that were unconstitutional,
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I agree; there was basis, as you unintentionally wrote.
Assault "weapon" bans (you are seriously behind the technical curve if that's the most accurate term you have) are the most directly genocidal of all gun control "you can't have it" regulations. Antigenocidal gun laws would be to the effect of "you must have it." The freest approach to this is to neither forbid assault rifles on every mantle nor in any wise mandate them.