Dear Bureaucrat, my job wants me to lie

Re:Dear Bureaucrat, my job wants me to lie by dsfyu404ed on Thursday June 13, 2019 @01:39PM (#20177040)

In my state the process is definitely "racist" because you need to get the discretionary approval of the police, a group not known for being colorblind (to put it mildly), simply to posses in your own home(!!) anything that's magazine fed (i.e. anything reasonably modern).

The laws are also structured to make it legal minefield anyone who can't just get everyone in the household licensed (which ain't happening if anyone in the household has a record) and chuck all their guns in a safe. Sure, it's not overtly racist but there's s lot of less racist things that people complain about being racist.

It's all basically a poll tax on something that's supposedly a constitutionally protected right.

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Re:Dear Bureaucrat, my job wants me to lie by Zak on Thursday June 13, 2019 @05:16PM (#20178638)

Assuming you're talking about a US state, I don't think a may-issue license to own a firearm that uses a magazine and keep it at home passes the test established by DC v. Heller and applied to the states by McDonald v. Chicago. Requiring a license is permissible under that standard, but it must be shall-issue.

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Re:Dear Bureaucrat, my job wants me to lie by dsfyu404ed on Thursday June 13, 2019 @08:18PM (#20179680)

>I don't think a may-issue license to own a firearm that uses a magazine and keep it at home passes the test established by DC v. Heller and applied to the states by McDonald v. Chicago

I am talking about a US state. I'm hoping they get a SCOTUS smack-down for the reasons you mentioned but I'm not gonna hold my breath.

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