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In a surprising decision that’s now under appeal, a federal district judge ruled that the ban on civilian-owned machine guns may actually violate the Second Amendment. The case, United States v. Morgan, comes out of Kansas and challenges the 1986 Hughes Amendment – a law that bans civilians from owning newly manufactured machine guns. Attorney and YouTuber Tom Grieve broke down the case in a recent video, calling it “potentially the most important gun case in decades.”
According to Grieve, this is the first time in a long while that a federal trial court has directly stated that machine guns – yes, actual automatic weapons – are protected “arms” under the Second Amendment. If that ruling stands, it could unravel a huge part of federal gun control as we know it.
Lisa Greene
June 5, 2025
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I posted about this case once before.
I have fairly high confidence the appeals court will find a way to claim machine guns are not protected. Then, I expect SCOTUS to refuse to take the case.
I will be disappointed, but all the briefs and other work that goes into this case can be recycled for other cases. Then, eventually, we will use liberal tears to cool the machines guns at the sporting events in local high schools.
Well if I’ve learned one thing in the last few years, if “a federal judge” says it, then it must be true and cannot be questioned.
The criminals in power DO NOT WANT any of us to own Full Auto weapons. Therefore we will NOT be allowed to own them. And they will do whatever it takes
to insure that proscription remains intact. The Constitution is irrelevant to them. They have proven that repeatedly
The qualification to own full-auto weapons is exactly the same as the qualification to own a single-shot .22.
Assuming someone wanted to own a full-auto capable firearm (removing the economic skew of the Hughes Amendment), they get to suffer from the expense of feeding the thing.
Get rid of the NFA, you’ll have more weapons that can do full-auto, but once the novelty of turning money into smoke and noise is exhausted, those weapons will be used in semi-auto.
Every problem possibly alleged could be more than sufficiently addressed by full enforcement of the law of prohibited persons being sent to dedicated primitive prison facilities in the deepest darkest valleys of Alaska.
After watching the video Richard (above) included, and the first and third practitioners, I’m looking at those “Russian Bride” internet ads in a completely different light…..
In Romania as a teen, my Sister-in-Law could field strip whatever rifle they used faster than anyone else in her unit.
My brother did not say how many people were in her unit, nor did he say anything about how well she could shoot.
Drones are rapidly becoming the deadliest weapon on the modern battlefield. I’m surprised there are not a lot more assassinations with them. Machine guns are fun, but they are expensive and only really useful in a very small number of scenarios. I’d much rather the banning on new semi-autos (those oft-demonized “assault weapons”), normal-cap mags (and belt-fed), and suppression of suppressors be lifted nation-wide.
Agreed. And that is the order in which things will occur.