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Originally Posted by highthief
I am not familiar with this - did the police shoot people and take away their guns or something?
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No, back in the late 90s, AG Lockyear started requiring registration of certain weapons with the institution of the state assault weapons ban. The ban had a grandfather clause in it and as long as those weapons were registered before a certain date, they were to be considered 'safe' to own. A few years later, using a bad interpretation by the State supreme court, Lockyear had state police go door to door at these houses that followed the law and registered those specific weapons, and confiscated them. The state assault weapons ban was contested as well and it was the traitorous justice reinhardt who delivered probably the most bogus opinion about the collective rights theory ever.
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/.../0115098ap.pdf
The denial opinion by Justice Kozinski is probably the best opinion EVER written by a sitting justice concerning the second amendment.
http://www.keepandbeararms.com/silveira/enbanc.asp