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**Frank Ettin** · October 10, 2013, 09:43 PM

And the bottom line is that if California's law prohibiting possession by individuals in California of certain types of semi-automatic rifles is going to be struck down by the courts, it will most likely be struck down on Second Amendment grounds -- not on Commerce Clause grounds.

October 10, 2013, 09:43 PM	#30
Frank Ettin Staff Join Date: November 23, 2005 Location: California - San Francisco Posts: 9,471	And the bottom line is that if California's law prohibiting possession by individuals in California of certain types of semi-automatic rifles is going to be struck down by the courts, it will most likely be struck down on Second Amendment grounds -- not on Commerce Clause grounds. __________________ "It is long been a principle of ours that one is no more armed because he has possession of a firearm than he is a musician because he owns a piano. There is no point in having a gun if you are not capable of using it skillfully." -- Jeff Cooper