Caetano Completely Exonerated

[HarryS]

I searched but failed to find a thread on this case. I am sure there must have been one.

However, it is good to see that Caetano has not only had the charges dropped in MA, but she has been exonerated by the judge and the records sealed, the best remedy for suffering through a prosecution that should never have been brought.

Alito's concurrence is especially eloquent about the individual right of self-defense outside the home with the arms Caetano chose. 2A thus speaks to "arms", not "guns" only and at its core is about self-defense where and when one is at risk.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/07/07/charges-dropped-in-caetano-v-massachusetts-second-amendment-stun-gun-case/

[strongpoint]

http://calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=980404

Came right up in a search.

[Lexicon Devil]

[wireless]

To quote the article: "Finally, the court used “a contemporary lens” and found “nothing in the record to suggest that [stun guns] are readily adaptable to use in the military.” But Heller rejected the proposition “that only those weapons useful in warfare are protected.”

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You can't have X arms because they are not used in the militia. You can't have Y guns because they are militia arms used as "weapons of war".

Heads I win, tails you lose.

Mother****ers.

[HarryS]

Strongpoint, I put "Caetano" to search the this particular forum. I thought I had seen it before. Operator error.

Thanks for pulling the original thread up.

[HarryS]

Couldn't this also be helpful in fighting 2A rights as far as CA in regard to AKs & ARs?

I thought Alito's concurrence was quite strong about the core mission of 2A and that the individual has the right to select arms (or not) that they prefer to carry and appropriate to the circumstances. If facing a mob of 40 by myself, an AR with standard magazines seems pretty appropriate to me.

Note that Caetano was told by the MA prosecution she could have bought a firearm. That's pretty hilarious given MA rules about purchasing firearms and carrying concealed, and her homeless state (to find the money to spend on a firearm). Prosecutor is unlikely to be very smart or mannerly, I guess.

[strongpoint]

Strongpoint, I put "Caetano" to search the this particular forum. I thought I had seen it before. Operator error.

Thanks for pulling the original thread up.

Hey, good on you for trying -- that's more than some people do. Thanks for the update anyway; you barely beat me to posting it.

[press1280]

Couldn't this also be helpful in fighting 2A rights as far as CA in regard to AKs & ARs?

Pardon my ignorance/innocence regarding the matter.

It should be however I think the anti judges will try to tie ARs to M-16s as the trump card. Not to mention SCOTUS has passed on 2 AW cases already.
Any other arms like batons, knives, clubs,exc should be low hanging fruit.