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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: RMF who wrote (893032)10/11/2015 2:23:01 AM
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The unavailability of certain weapons (hand grenades, for example) is not based on whether they are "needed" or not. It is based on whether they may be legally possessed or not. Many of the banned weapons are banned by statute that prohibits "destructive" weapons, which AR 15s are not (to be "destructive" a weapon must carry an explosive warhead of some type or be a bomb or other device).

So, if Congress passes a law that makes handguns illegal, and it then passes constitutional muster with the Supreme Court, it is illegal. However, given the decision in Heller, that seems like an unlikely outcome unless a conservative justice retires or dies.

AFAIK, "need" never enters into the picture.
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