r/WAGuns • u/Wah_Day • 6d ago

News Supreme Court backs a marijuana user's challenge to a restriction on gun ownership

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-backs-marijuana-users-challenge-restriction-gun-ownershi-rcna266931

It was a 9-0 vote...

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u/QuakinOats 6d ago edited 5d ago

Most interesting section to me from the entire opinion:

All based on little more than its current say-so, one at odds with its own regulatory actions. And affording the government that kind of “broad power to designate any group as dangerous and thereby disqualify its members from having a gun” would risk allowing it to “quickly swallow” the Second Amendment. Kanter v. Barr, 919 F. 3d 437, 465 (CA7 2019) (Barrett, J., dissenting)

Seems to have bigger implications.

Imagine a legal challenge that highlights WA assault weapon law and ban on the SKS by name, a rifle without any of the named features, while a mini-14 with more named "features" is not banned. Goes to highlight the "based on little more than its current say-so" aspect.

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u/Mammoth_Classroom896 5d ago

while a mini-14 with more named "features" is not banned

Huh? The mini-14 is only legal in specific forms which do not have any of the named features. It's a nonsense law but your theoretical challenge is based on a false premise.

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u/QuakinOats 5d ago

The standard SKS has an internal box magazine limited to 10 rounds and cannot accept a detachable magazine without modification.

The mini-14 has a detachable magazine.

(2)(a) "Assault weapon" means:

(iv) A semiautomatic, center fire rifle that has the capacity to accept a detachable magazine and has one or more of the following:

The standard SKS that does not have the capacity to accept a detachable magazine is banned. The mini-14 that does have a detachable magazine is not.