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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why would an AR 15 not be legal? Because they scare liberals? That doesn’t seem like a very good reason to make something illegal. Whether it be guns, free speech, or anything else for that matter. [/quote]

There's nothing that specifically says it should be.  The 2nd Amendment doesn't specify what kind of arms one can keep and bear.[/quote]

At one point SCOTUS in the Miller decision upheld a ban on short barreled shotguns as they weren't considered to be appropriate for militia use ( despite being used in World war 1 a decade and a half before).

Arguably AR platform rifles have a closer link to military service than most other firearms, if you're a person who stresses the militia part of the second amendment.[/quote]

You are rewriting the standard.  Scalia did not say "link to military service".  He said "in common use at the time".  In fact, in the Heller decision he said that changing weapons among the military does not change the limits of the 2nd amendment.  It's all right there in his opinion.

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I'm not talking about Heller. I am talking about Miller. Miller had to do with the 1934 NFA short barreled shotguns provisions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Miller

The decision is somewhat contraversy in that neither Miller nor his attorney argued in front of the SCOTUS leaving arguments only from one side.[/quote]

Well you need to read Heller, because it is now the defining case for the 2nd Amendment.  He specifically addressed the issue of whether changing military weapons affects what is or is not protected.  [/quote]

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