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Constitutional because it Won't Be Enforced!??!
At least a portion of the ruling, regarding the UBC law, is that one plaintiff has lack of standing to sue because there is no evidence that the law will be enforced!
From the horses, er, judges mouth on page 15 of the ruling:
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In addition, assuming that he kept a firearm for longer than 72 hours with the owner’s permission while performing maintenance duties on it, he has not shown any credible threat that he would be prosecuted for not first obtaining a background check. Accordingly, the evidence does not establish Mr. Harrell’s standing.
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Are we now to assume laws are Constitutional if they're not intended to be enforced?  
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Violence is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and valorous feeling which believes that nothing is worth violence is much worse. Those who have nothing for which they are willing to fight; nothing they care about more than their own craven apathy; are miserable creatures who have no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the valor of those better than themselves. Gary L. Griffiths (Paraphrasing John Stuart Mill)
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