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2A victory on "nunchuck sticks"
Posted by David Hardy · 18 December 2018 10:08 AM
Malone v. Singas, Eastern District of NY. The court finds that nunchucks are 2A-protected (or to be more exact, presumes that as arms they are protected, and the government failed to refute this), that they are in common-enough use, and that the government has produced no evidence that they are used in crime to the point where anyone could care.
It's rather typical of modern-day rulings in that it takes 32 pages to say this.....
It seems the police are something above a mere citizen in this judge's eyes. From footnote 10 "The Court also does not include the sales data for the OPN because these nunchakus are used exclusively by law enforcement and the Second Amendment is only concerned with weapons “typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes,” Heller, 554 U.S. at 625.
I feel the exceptions for police in all these random weapons laws around the country are one of the biggest issues we face. As soon as the exception is added, the police line up and helium-hand their support for the laws, giving the law the facade of credibility.