The Partisan Divide on Issues

[David Horn]

(02-19-2021, 03:25 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: It won't take an amendment to make AR-15s and such illegal. I suppose that would be up to the Supreme Court to approve or strike down such a law, if passed, and I think Scalia would have approved such a law as far as I can tell. He gave the (mistaken in my view) opinion that the 2nd applied to individuals and not members of a well-regulated militia, but held that gun control was legal. I don't think he held that individuals had a constitutional right to own and carry today's military weapons. I suppose the current Supreme Court might rule in the Proud Boys et al favor. But yes it would take a law to make AR-15s illegal and confiscate them from militia, as I said, and laws are the result of due process. I imagine that these groups could be made illegal, depending on their purpose, but I could be wrong, and I may have to be content with what can be done, as you say...

I don't know about this. The SCOTUS is pretty far right, and guns are a major far right issue. It may be that Scalia will be seen as "moderate" when this court gets going in earnest.