Also, most people who have more historic weapons likely are just not going to say anything because these rules apply mostly to gun stores when buying new weapons there. For example, in Saving Private Ryan the sniper who is American likely was using a 30 odd 6 with a scope because a 30 odd 6 bullet is accurate way over a mile or more with little or no drop. Whereas now U.S. snipers use 50 Caliber weapons with a stand for accuracy with special scopes.
I have often thought about a foreign power attacking the U.S. and U.S. citizens led by police and firemen with sniper rifles that they often now own fighting back with sniper rifles with scopes from street to street across America.
This is one reason why any foreign power would be out of their minds to attack America because Americans are armed to the teeth. They are not like any other nation on earth.
Even our revolutionary war was won mostly by American Snipers with Long Rifles. So, it has always been a part of our history since the beginning.
Assault Weapons Not Protected by Second Amendment, Federal Appeals Court Rules
byThe Associated Press
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland's ban on 45 kinds of
assault weapons and its 10-round limit on gun magazines were upheld
Tuesday by a federal appeals court in a decision that met with a
strongly worded dissent.
In a 10-4 ruling, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, said the guns banned under Maryland's law
aren't protected by the Second Amendment.
"Put simply, we have no power to extend Second
Amendment protections to weapons of war," Judge Robert King wrote for
the court, adding that the Supreme Court's decision in District of
Columbia v. Heller explicitly excluded such coverage.
Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh, who led
the push for the law in 2013 as a state senator, said it's "unthinkable
that these weapons of war, weapons that caused the carnage in Newtown
and in other communities across the country, would be protected by the
Second Amendment."
AR-15 rifles. Scott Olson / Getty Images
"It's a very strong opinion, and it has national
significance, both because it's en-banc and for the strength of its
decision," Frosh said, noting that all of the court's judges
participated.
Judge William Traxler issued a dissent. By
concluding the Second Amendment doesn't even apply, Traxler wrote, the
majority "has gone to greater lengths than any other court to eviscerate
the constitutionally guaranteed right to keep and bear arms." He also
wrote that the court did not apply a strict enough review on the
constitutionality of the law.
"For a law-abiding citizen who, for whatever
reason, chooses to protect his home with a semi-automatic rifle instead
of a semi-automatic handgun, Maryland's law clearly imposes a
significant burden on the exercise of the right to arm oneself at home,
and it should at least be subject to strict scrutiny review before it is
allowed to stand," Traxler wrote.
National Rifle Association spokeswoman Jennifer
Baker said, "It is absurd to hold that the most popular rifle in America
is not a protected 'arm' under the Second Amendment." She added that
the majority opinion "clearly ignores the Supreme Court's guidance from
District of Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment protects arms
that are 'in common use at the time for lawful purposes like
self-defense.'"
The NRA estimates there are 5 million to 10
million AR-15s — one of the weapons banned under Maryland's law — in
circulation in the United States for lawful purposes. Asked about an
appeal, Baker said the NRA is exploring all options.
Once Banned, These Assault Rifles Are Hugely Popular in the U.S.
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But Elizabeth Banach, executive director of
Marylanders to Prevent Gun Violence, said the decision is "overwhelming
proof that reasonable measures to prevent gun violence are
constitutional."
"Maryland's law needs to become a national model
of evidence-based policies that will reduce gun violence," Banach wrote
in a statement.
U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake upheld the
ban in 2015, but a divided three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals ruled last year that she didn't apply the proper legal
standard. The panel sent the case back to Blake and ordered her to apply
"strict scrutiny," a more rigorous test of a law's constitutionality.
The state appealed to the full appeals court.
Maryland passed the sweeping gun-control measure
after the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre that killed 20
children and six educators in Connecticut. King mentioned the massacre
at the start of the ruling.
"Both before and after Newtown, similar
military-style rifles and detachable magazines have been used to
perpetrate mass shootings in places whose names have become synonymous
with the slaughters that occurred there," King wrote. He listed the 2012
shootings at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado; the December 2015
shootings in San Bernardino, California; and the shootings last year at
an Orlando, Florida, nightclub, where 49 people were killed and 53
injured.
King also noted that enacting the law is
"precisely the type of judgment that legislatures are allowed to make
without second-guessing by a court."
"Simply put, the State has shown all that is
required: a reasonable, if not perfect, fit between the (Firearms Safety
Act) and Maryland's interest in protecting public safety," King wrote.
But Elizabeth Banach, executive director of
Marylanders to Prevent Gun Violence, said the decision is "overwhelming
proof that reasonable measures to prevent gun violence are
constitutional." 
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