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library_max Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-09-04 03:33 PM
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58. Once more with feeling.
What does any of this have to do with Miller or the Second Amendment?

You're trying to win an argument by redefining the terms. The problem with doing so is that it makes the whole argument irrelevant, to any substantial point and to reality in general. Fine, according to your own definition of "ban" there has never been a federal law banning any kind of weapon, at least not that I can cite for you. So what? We are talking about the fact that the Second Amendment has never been successfully invoked to overturn any gun control measure of any kind whatsoever, state, federal, or otherwise. But there have been cases, most notably Miller, in which the courts explicitly denied a general individual RKBA outside the context of the militia. Cases since Miller have clarified the militia issue to the point of essentially making the Second Amendment as a whole moot.

Word games and trick questions won't change that reality.
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