“Salim’s law would have done nothing to prevent Virginia Tech, or likely any other shootings.”
The Virginia General Assembly recently sent a bill for Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s (D-VA) signature that would ban new sales of “assault firearms” and “high-capacity magazines,” two nonsense phrases concocted by the Left to scare non-gun owners. Virginia would become the 10th state to enact these bans.
Sooner or later, the Supreme Court is going to have to stop evading the question of state bans on semiautomatic rifles and magazine capacity. Because any justice that adheres to the District of Columbia v. Heller decision couldn’t possibly believe either passes constitutional muster.
Heller not only reaffirmed that the Second Amendment was an individual right but that weapons “in common use by law-abiding citizens” were legal. The AR-15 clearly meets this criterion. It’s the most popular rifle in America. It is not even close to being the deadliest weapon in the country. To say that the AR-15 is responsible for 3% of homicides is probably pushing it. More people are killed by punches and kicks than by AR-15s.
By David Harsanyi
