{"id":12841,"date":"2016-03-22T11:19:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T15:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12841"},"modified":"2016-03-22T11:19:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T15:19:01","slug":"2a-covers-stun-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12841","title":{"rendered":"2A covers stun guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Supreme Court<\/a> issued <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2016\/03\/21\/supreme-court-stun-gun-second-amendment\/76313848\/\" target=\"_blank\">a unanimous ruling<\/a> in the case of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/15pdf\/14-10078_aplc.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Caetano V. Massachusetts<\/a><\/em> suggesting that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/wex\/second_amendment\" target=\"_blank\">2nd Amendment<\/a> does not just include firearms available at the time of its writing.<\/p>\n<p>This sounds like a good thing, although I do not know just how good as the case involved a stun gun, not modern AR-type firearms.\u00a0 New York, like Massachusetts, prohibits stun gun possession except by police officers.\u00a0 I assume someone will bring a stun gun lawsuit here which references the <em>Caetano<\/em> decision at which point we&#8217;ll get a better idea of the importance of the ruling.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D12841&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12841\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12841\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12841\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling in the case of Caetano V. 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