The good folks at The Truth About Guns have been kind enough to ask me to contribute to their fine website, and I now find myself writing for two of the finest gun blogs extant, the other being Bearing Arms. My first offering for TTAG–“Do Magazine Limits Pass the Constitutionality Sniff Test?”–is an analysis of a piece Eugene Volokh wrote on magazine size limits.
It may be worth your time.
I have become a bit preoccupied in visualizing cops barging into my home in the middle of the night and exactly what I would do.
I have guns and a dog. If you care to opine realistically, I am all ears.
Wow. I used to value Eugene Volokh’s legal opinions.
He clearly fails to apply strict scrutiny to an infringement of the second amendment, and admits that limiting magazine capacity to the arbitrary number of 10 rounds does nothing to promote public safety or in any other way advance a legitimate government interest – yet argues that such magazine capacity limits are constitutional.
Utterly absurd.
Dear Chip Bennett:
I think Volokh was making a defensible argument based on precedent, however, there is an equally defensible argument–and I believe one based more firmly in the Constitution, to be made. I certainly haven’t seen him taking an obviously anti-gun stance, but it’s something to keep an eye on.
Im sick of people looking to a document that was supposed to stop government thugs from taking away our freedoms. Instead of behavior being regulated by the interpretation of a few men how about one simply asks “Does my behavior violate someone elses rights”? If not, live and let live.