Sentences with phrase «uphold second amendment»
How can we prevent them while upholding the Second Amendment?
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Assault weapons and large - capacity magazines are not protected by the Second Amendment, a federal judge said in a ruling Friday upholding Massachusetts» ban on the weapons.
The court's denial means a mid-level appeals court's March ruling will stand, upholding the ban on certain semiautomatic firearms included in the SAFE Act, the 2013 gun - control law that riled Second Amendment activists across the state.
Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny today upheld the assault weapons ban portion of New York's SAFE Act, but struck down several other provisions — including the seven - round magazine limit, calling it «largely an arbitrary restriction that impermissibly infringes on the rightsguaranteed by the Second Amendment.»
A federal judge has upheld most of New York's new gun control law, rejecting arguments that its bans on large - capacity magazines and the sale of some semi-automatic rifles violate Second Amendment rights.
The NRA presents itself as a civil rights group dedicated to upholding and defending the Second Amendment to the US Constitution — the one about the right to «keep and bear arms».
A California Court of Appeals upheld a community college's temporary lease of surplus land to a religious organization at fair market value under California's second Blaine Amendment (Article XVI, Section 5).
I believe the question of felons in possession of weapons in relation to the second amendment has most certainly been carefully crafted by the supreme court in order to uphold the power of the federal government to restrict the r rights of free people.