A voter-approved Oregon gun control law violates the state constitution, a judge ruled Tuesday, continuing to block it from taking effect and casting fresh doubt over the future of the embattled measure.
The law requires people to undergo a criminal background check and complete a gun safety training course in order to obtain a permit to buy a firearm. It also bans high-capacity magazines.
The plaintiffs in the federal case, which include the Oregon Firearms Federation, have appealed the ruling to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The case could potentially go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
You have describe the problem perfectly. 2A is an extremely blunt law with zero nuance. At least that’s how it has been interpreted by the courts. And that’s a clearly a huge problem. If the amendment allowed for common sense laws, that would be one thing, but we keep hearing over and over that 2A simply doesn’t allow it. Well then 2A is the problem.
And then the problem becomes you need a new Amendment to change it and that starts by getting a 2/3rds vote in the House… 290 votes.
They can’t get 290 votes to decide who their own leader should be, or that George Santos should be bounced.
We’re actually closer to calling for a full re-write of the Constitution, but when you consider that idea is being driven by the right wing, don’t hold out hope their version will contain gun control.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_to_propose_amendments_to_the_United_States_Constitution
The right will demand abortion restriction and gun rights, the left will demand gun restriction and abortion rights, and the whole process dies.
How hard do you smugly smile typing that, knowing we’ll probably never have the votes to amend the constitution ever again for any purpose?
Knowing that, our only hope is to get a supreme court that will interpret it in a way that might let us save some lives.
Oh, it’s not smug. Horrified, never smug.
I do hope that people will eventually realize that Republicans can’t run a government and throw them all out, but I suspect their voters aren’t interested in a functional government either.
That’s how it has been interpreted lately.