Machine Gun Ruling Exposes Republican 2A Hypocrisy

“Circuit shoots down challenge to machine gun ban,” Courthouse News reports. “The federal government maintained the Second Amendment does not cover machine guns or the machine gun conversion device that led to a two-year prison sentence for a Fort Lauderdale man.”

In U.S. v. Altenat, a three-judge panel from the 11^th Circuit Court  “declined … to overturn the conviction of a Florida man” who sold three of them to an undercover agent. They based their rationale on District of Columbia v. Heller,  the Supreme Court case that ‘found a ban on the possession of handguns unconstitutional but allowed for the prohibition...

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