Eugene- Person or persons sniping at your house from the property line of
your ranch and you can't use a .50 in defense? Wait for them to come closer
and use your Heller-Approved handgun?
{Cf pdf pages 27 & 37}
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Subject: [Volokh] Eugene Volokh: California Court of Appeal Upholds
Ban
on .50-Caliber Rifles Against Second Amendment Challenge:
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 00:19:39 -0400
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I can't speak to the wisdom of a .50-caliber ban, but this seems to be
a sensible interpretation of Heller's test for what "arms" are
protected. Moreover, as I argue in my forthcoming [2]Implementing the
Right to Keep and Bear Arms in Self-Defense article, this is also
consistent with a sensible interpretation of the right to keep and
bear arms in self-defense. In my article, I argue that Heller's
"typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes" test
is flawed. But, among other things, I argue that the right to bear
arms for self-defense shouldn't be seen as infringed by restrictions
that don't materially interfere with the right to self-defense; and a
ban on .50-caliber rifles doesn't materially interfere with
self-defense (see PDF pages 12-19 and 48, as well as PDF pages 37-42
for the discussion of interpreting the scope of "arms" post-Heller).
This doesn't speak, of course, to the right to keep and bear arms for
other reasons, such as deterrence of government tyranny and the like.
But I leave that questions to others (much as the Court did in
Heller); writing 100+ pages on the right to bear arms in self-defense
is enough for me.
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