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Jerry Nowicki| Capitol News Illinois

In a 4-3 decisionwith a blistering dissent from the Republican minority, the Illinois Supreme Court declined to rule on a question of whether Illinois Firearm Owners Identification Act is unconstitutional.

It was the second time the case of the People v. Vivian Brown came before the court and the second time the court declined to rule on the constitutionality of the state statute requiring Illinoisans to receive a permit to legally own a gun.

The majority opinion released Thursday was written by Chief Justice Anne M. Burke and was procedural in nature. It contended that the White County Circuit Court failed to adhere to the Supreme Courts previous2020 rulingin the case, so it once again vacated the lower courts ruling that the FOID Act was unconstitutional.

Previous story: Illinois Supreme Court rules on gun cases, upholds Deerfield ban on assault weapons

Burke was joined in the majority by Democrats Mary Jane Theis, P. Scott Neville Jr. and Robert Carter.

Justice Michael Burke who is not related to the chief justice wrote the dissent, making up 11 of the 21 pages in the Thursday order.

He argued the majority decision was based on a misunderstanding of the record and a misreading of this courts precedents, and that it could keep the defendant in legal limbo for an untold period of years.

The case involves a White County resident, Vivian Claudine Brown, who was charged in March 2017 with possession of a firearm without a FOID card after police responded to her estranged husbands call that she had fired a gun in her home.

Police found the rifle but no evidence that she fired it. Nonetheless, she was charged with the crime.

Previous story: Judge finds Illinois firearm ownership card law unconstitutional as applied to 1 resident

But a circuit judge in White County threw out the charge, ruling that the fees and forms required to receive a FOID imposed an unconstitutional burden on Browns Second Amendment right to keep a firearm in her own home.

But it was an alternative ruling made by the same court without prompting from Browns legal team that allowed the states high court to decline to rule on the constitutional grounds.

That alternative ruling contended that the Illinois General Assembly, when it passed the FOID Act, never meant for it to apply in the home, because if it did, it would mean anybody with knowledge of a firearm and exclusive control over the area where it was kept could be construed as possessing the gun.

As a general rule, courts decline to rule on constitutional matters when a case can be decided on other grounds.

Because the circuit court ruled on an aspect of the FOID Act pertaining to state law, the Supreme Courts 2020 decision vacated the order pertaining to constitutionality and sent the matter back to White County to permit the normal appellate process to run its course.

The ruling was essentially a win for Brown, but her legal team contended it wouldnt stand up to an appeal. Thus, Browns attorneys filed a motion to reconsider, arguing that the inevitable loss on appeal would delay clarity in the case.

The circuit court agreed and reinstated the charges. Browns attorneys then filed a new motion to dismiss on constitutional grounds,which the judge upheld, finding that any fee associated with exercising the core fundamental Constitutional right of armed self-defense within the confines of ones home violates the Second Amendment.

Thus, the state appealed the rulingback to the Supreme Court, leading to the Thursday ruling in which the majority decided the lower court had no authority to reconsider the case after the Supreme Courts 2020 ruling.

When a cause is remanded by the reviewing court with instructions to the circuit court to enter a specific order, the reviewing courts judgment is, with respect to the merits, the end of the case, and there is nothing which the circuit court [is] authorized to do but enter the decree, the court wrote, quoting other case law.

If the lower court were allowed to make changes to the Supreme Courts ruling, the majority wrote, it would set a precedent upending our hierarchical judicial system.

The dissent from Michael Burke, however, argued that the majority asserted finality of its ruling while also suggesting that the proper place for review is now an appellate court, which is itself a lower court.

In reality, the judgment of the circuit court was not a judgment of this court that was final and conclusive on all the parties because this court declined to reach the merits of the statutory analysis and only vacated the circuit courts judgment on procedural grounds, Michael Burke wrote in the dissent. Accordingly, the trial court was free to reconsider the merits of that ruling, and nothing about it doing so upends our hierarchical judicial system.

Michael Burke argued that the majoritys supposition that Brown received complete relief when the circuit court vacated her charges was faulty, because the legal reasoning backing that decision is unlikely to hold up upon appeal.

Thus, he predicted, the case will ultimately end up back at the Supreme Court on the constitutional basis, only after a significant delay to Browns detriment as the case moves through the appellate court.

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This whole discussion of assault rifles is filled with emotion, misleading information, outright false information and propaganda. Many democrats want to eliminate guns altogether. They tend to spin the Second Amendment to make it fit their desires. Lets look at the facts:1: The Second Amendment (if you read the Federalist papers) was enacted because our founding fathers wanted a check against the threat of a totalitarian government. It gave us the right to keep and bear arms. President Biden makes the ridiculous observation that we cant own a cannon. No one wants to own a cannon. We cant own a jet fighter either. However, we can own a gun to use for sport or for protection.We cant own a machine gun or a bazooka. Those are weapons of war. The democrats and gun control people want to try to classify most legally owned guns as weapons of war so they can have them confiscated. An assault weapon is a weapon that is fully automatic, like a machine gun. The AR15 is a semi-automatic firing gun and is not a weapon of war. It may look like a weapon of war but it isnt. However, President Biden and other democrats would have you believe it is a weapon of war.2: There are millions of guns in the United States. Most families own at least one gun for protection. There are many gun enthusiasts who own many guns they use for hunting and sport. They dont shoot people. Mentally ill and evil people use guns and bombs and knives to kill innocent people. This is not a gun issue, its a mental health issue.

Larry MoranVillage of Mallory Square

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By Rich Moniak

Jeff Lowenfels was at the bottom of my short list in the special primary election to complete Congressman Don Youngs term. Then Alaska Public Media asked all 48 candidates if theyd support a ban on the manufacture and importation of semiautomatic assault weapons, as defined in the federal assault weapons ban that expired in 2004. And Lowenfels won my vote with his unfiltered honesty.

Absolutely he replied. Military style, semiautomatic weapons were not contemplated by the second amendment, but even if they were, Id be in favor of the bans.

Lowenfels isnt he only one who understood banning such weapons is necessary to turn back the ugly tide of mass murder in this country. Within the 50-word limit imposed by APM, Santa Claus offered the most comprehensive answer. But hes not competing for a full term. And its unlikely Congress will take any action on this issue between the special election and the start of the next session in January.

Now, its hard to write Santa Claus in a sentence about politics without explaining the two-term councilman and current mayor pro tem from the city of North Pole legally changed his name in 2005. YES IF AMENDED (emphasis original) began his reply to the question. He then pointed to loopholes in law and called for additional changes.

One problem with the original law is it banned 18 specific weapons and similar models that had two specific features. But gun manufacturers could evade the laws intent by making slight modifications to those. The law also allowed the resale of any banned weapon that had been manufactured before it went into effect.

Its no wonder that studies of the bans effectiveness found little to no measurable reduction of the crimes it targeted.

Adam Wool, a Democrat who currently represents Fairbanks in the state House of Representatives, believes we need to limit access to these types of weapons but the details matter. However, he wasnt suggesting those loopholes be closed because the ban that was previously in law was acceptable. The problem now is its different political landscape.

His response, as well as those from Chris Constant, Mary Peltola, and Al Gross, displayed one critical difference. There are too few candidates on the left with the courage to state an important factLike most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited. It does not include a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.

Those words were written Justice Antonin Scalia in the majority opinion of the landmark District of Columbia v. Heller. It represented the first time in American history that the constitutional right of an individual to keep and bear arms was not connected to service in a militia. Scalia, the original originalist in interpreting the Constitution, went on to defend the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons.

Simply put, Congress has the constitutional power to ban the ones in question.

Constant qualified his support for doing so by stating We have to carefully navigate the Second Amendment.

Without mentioning assault weapons, Peltola said she supports the creation of a bipartisan congressional committee tasked with bringing common sense gun legislation that respects our 2nd amendment rights.

Gross didnt let the Second Amendment get in his way of supporting universal background checks. But he thinks that and a nationally standardized interview with local authorities constitute an appropriate level of scrutiny for anyone who wants to buy an AR-15.

Those positions concede too much authority to the Second Amendment.

And to Republican candidates who argue a national ban on assault weapons, or any other reasonable restriction on gun sales and ownership, violates it.

Michael Gerson referred to such beliefs as somewhere on the far side of laughable ignorance.

A former senior policy adviser to President George W. Bush and the Heritage Foundation, Gerson isnt one of the 48 candidates. In the conservative commentary he writes for Washington Post, hes free to speak his conscience.

Thats a challenge for candidates seeking public office. But voters who want sensible gun restrictions should think twice before supporting a candidate who is afraid to declare that the Second Amendments rights are not absolute.

Rich Moniak is a Juneau resident and retired civil engineer with more than 25 years of experience working in the public sector. Columns, My Turns and Letters to the Editor represent the view of the author, not the view of the Juneau Empire. Have something to say? Heres how to submit a My Turn or letter.

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by Kevin Cody

Lance Dominguez, of Torrance, spent two weeks working with Hermosa Beach, and Manhattan Beach city hall, police, and fire officials to get a permit for Saturdays March for Our Lives. The march drew an estimated 200 gun legislation supporters, who met at noon at the Manhattan Beach Pier, and marched to the Hermosa Beach pier for a rally on Pier Plaza. The permit required he pay for security.

I find it ironic, Dominguez told the marchers, that it is more difficult to organize a peaceful march than for an 18-year-old to walk into a store, and walk out with an AR-15, and 100 rounds of ammunition. If exercising my First Amendment right to assembly can be regulated to protect public safety, shouldnt the same be true of those exercising their Second Amendment right to bear arms? he asked.

Seaside is the Christmas lights neighborhood. You may have even bought hot chocolate from Rebeccas son David, Dominguez said.

Boldrick introduced herself over the loudspeakers as a former Torrance School District teacher. Her son David, and daughter Lauren attended Seaside Elementary, Calle Mayor Middle School, and South High School before the family moved to Parkland, Florida in 2016.

The Torrance School District began active shooter drills after the mass shooting in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School (in Newtown, Connecticut). But I never dreamed my childrens school would have an active shooter, Boldrick said.

On Feb. 14, 2018, Boldricks son and daughter were in class at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, when former student Nikolas Cruz, 19, opened fire on students and teachers with an AR-15 assault rifle, killing 17 people and injuring 17 others.

David and Laurens childhood ended that day. My daughter lost four of her best friends, Boldrick said.

The following month, her son David Hogg, co-organized the inaugural March for Life on Washington D.C. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential People in 2018.

The March for Our Lives (South Bay) gets underway at the Manhattan Beach Pier June 11. Photo by Garth Meyer

Saturdays March for Life was one of hundreds nationwide, held in response to the May 24 killing of 19 students, and two teachers, and the wounding of 17 others at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas by an AR-15, wielded by 18-year-old Uvalde High School student Salvador Ramos.

Following Boldricks recorded address, former Torrance school counselor Christine Macinnis told the marchers, Over 90 percent of mass shootings are by young white men. But it is easier to get a gun than a therapist We cant keep saying this is a mental health issue without providing mental health.

Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi, who was reelected last Tuesday to a fifth term representing the 66 Assembly District, said California has the strongest gun laws in California. Its 111 gun laws include background check requirements; and a red flag ban on high risk people having guns..

In January, Muratsuchi co-authored a bill that would prohibit manufacturing, andr assembling unserialized firearms, commonly known as ghost guns.

Im proud to say every time the National Rifle Association releases a scorecard, I get an F, Muratsuchi said.

The rally was briefly interrupted when a man, who declined to identify himself, approached the speaker stage and shouted, What about the pharmaceutical industry? They kill more people than guns. (Prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death, after heart disease, and cancer in the United States and Europe, according to the website PubMed.com).

Marcher Justin House, of Hermosa Beach, guided the anti protester away from the stage. He and Hermosa Beach Police Josh Droz, kept the man engaged in conversation until the rally ended, approximately 30 minutes later.

Lunch at the Strand House was underway. Spikeball on the beach too, on an overcast June day.

On the sidewalk, a young Black woman held a piece of cardboard aloft as she walked toward a crowd gathered on the Manhattan Beach Pier.

I Want to Live, it read.

Other signs and blue shirts converged and a voice from a megaphone began.

No more silence, end gun violence!

The crowd grew.

A bearded man with a long skateboard stood at the edges holding a yellow flag: Dont Tread on Me.

The march went up the Strand walkway.

No more silence! End gun violence! continued the chants. Kids should have fun, not run from a gun!

More signs amidst the marchers made other statements: We call B.S., vote them out; 21st weapons, 18th century laws; The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to keep the gun out of his hands; A well-regulated militia didnt kill our kids.

Marchers were greeted at the Hermosa Beach Pier by a group of red-shirted 10-year old girls soliciting lemonade sales for their club soccer team.

The March for our Lives event cost $7,000, for permits, security and supplies, organizer Dominguez said, paid for by a grant from the national office of March for Our Lives.

A Torrance resident and single father of three young children, Dominguez had never before been involved in planning an event like this.

I had absolutely no clue what I was getting myself into, but Im glad we pulled it off, he said. Because of the people who are afraid to speak up, my voice has to be louder.

He noted plans to re-form a South Bay chapter of March for Our Lives in local high schools.

Speaker Nina Tarnay, a Manhattan Beach mother of three, announced to the crowd Colorforchange.org, a project she co-founded which allows people to download and color postcards to send to political representatives. ER

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U.S. Reps. Rodney Davis and Mary Miller are running in the Republican primary for Illinois 15th Congressional District on June 28, 2022. This race is one of six incumbent-vs.-incumbent primaries occurring in 2022 as a result of congressional redistricting after the 2020 census.

Davis has represented Illinois 13th Congressional District since 2013. Miller has represented the 15th Congressional District since 2021. According to data from Daily Kos, 28% of the new 15th Districts population came from the old 13th District (represented by Davis), and 31% came from the old 15th District (represented by Miller). Illinois lost one congressional district following the 2020 census.

The Herald & Reviews Brenden Moore wrote, The race has been among the most contentious incumbent-versus-incumbent primaries in the country. Davis and Miller have traded barbs over who is the true conservative candidate in the race. According to OpenSecrets, the primary currently comes in second in total satellite spending out of all 2022 U.S. House races, with over $7.5 million spent as of June 15.

Davis said, I stick with my core values and principles. I have always been pro-life and will continue to stick by those values and principles. Ive always stood up for the Second Amendment. I will continue to do that. But what separates me from my opponent is I have a record of actually governing. When people put Republicans in charge, at any level of government, they actually expect them to do the job. Davis criticized Miller for voting against the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, saying, All Mary Miller has to show for her time in Congress is quoting Hitler and voting with Democrats like [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] and the far left squad to defund our military and block a pay raise for our troops. Thats shameful. Its clear that Mary Miller is all talk, no action.

The Illinois Farm Bureau, Illinois Fraternal Order of Police State Lodge, and Illinois AFL-CIO endorsed Davis, along with U.S. Reps. Mike Bost (R-Ill.) and Darin LaHood (R-Ill.).

Miller said, Im the only Republican member of Congress from Illinois whos fighting every aspect of the Biden agenda and putting America first. Im fighting for real election security so that voters decide elections, not the ballot counters. And Im proud to be the only Republican from Illinois to vote against the Biden-Pelosi gun confiscation bill which would have allowed firearms to be seized by the federal government. Miller criticized Davis for a bill he cosponsored in 2019 that would have provided grants for states to enact extreme risk protection order laws, or red flag laws. Miller said, I am the only candidate with an A rating from the NRA and Gun Owners of America because I support our Second Amendment! Everyone is tired of Red Flag Rodney Davis, who stabbed conservatives in the back by supporting federal gun confiscation.

Former President Donald Trump (R) endorsed Miller on January 1, 2022. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Club for Growth, the Conservative Political Action Coalition, and the House Freedom Fund also endorsed Miller.

Major independent observers rate the general election as solid or safe Republican.

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I am fascinated by clever commentaries like Dave Andersons recent submission (If Democrats show respect for the 2nd Amendment, Republicans will compromise on gun safety legislation, June 2). Mr. Anderson seems so earnest in his attempt to bring us all together on the crisis of gun violence in America, but is he?

Mr. Anderson suggests that there is only one thing holding Republicans back from entertaining sensible gun restrictions. And you guessed it, its Democrats. His thesis is that Republicans would be onboard if Democrats would just show respect for the Second Amendment. Thats all.

The writer explains that it is very simple if you threaten what I love, I will fight to keep it. Well, guess what. Most of us love our families, our children and going to public places without the fear of being gunned down indiscriminately by rapid fire assault rifles. And we are ready to fight for that.

This articles real intent seems to be to inject the word, confiscation, into the conversation. Pro-gun advocates use the straw man of confiscation as a shield from meaningful discussion. Confiscation, seriously? No one is scheming to confiscate that gun you love so much, except perhaps those Americans who are burying their children this week after an 18-year-old used his birthday money to buy an AR-15 since he couldnt legally buy beer.

Mr. Anderson sums up his meeting of the minds argument with this: If Democrats show respect for the Second Amendment, compromise is possible. If not, the slaughter will continue.

I have another idea. Why dont Republican lawmakers start showing respect for the Second Amendment? Stop raising money by fear mongering confiscation. Stop glorifying your long rifles on campaign ads and Christmas cards. Show some honest respect for your constituents and start doing the hard work of coming to the table with real ideas for real compromise. If not, the slaughter will continue.

Mitch Vitullo, Columbia

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The leftists who wanted to force you to take a vaccine in order to keep your job and wanted to use a "Disinformation Board" to silence your First Amendment right to speak out against the government now want to eliminate your Second Amendment right to defend yourself and your family.

Our Bill of Rights, which includes the Second Amendment, is crucial to protect our personal liberties from an all-powerful federal government. If anyone questions the power of the modern federal government, think back to the power the federal bureaucracy seized to impose COVID mandates in the name of public safety while at the same time restricting your First Amendment right to challenge those mandates through censorship.

In the wake of the horrific tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, shameless politicians immediately pushed their political agenda of eliminating the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens. President Joe Biden was behind a White House podium within hours to deliver a divisive political speech, claiming we have too many rights and telling us he must take away our rights to make us safer.

Leftists don't care about public safety they are in complete control of Baltimore and Chicago, two of the most dangerous cities in the world. Leftists made these cities more dangerous by releasing criminals during COVID and refusing to prosecute criminals as part of their "woke" agenda. Democrats keep our southern border open for gangs and drug cartels to pass through, and they refuse to cooperate with ICE to deport criminals. These soft-on-crime policies have created a crime wave, which has been exacerbated by the left's "Defund The Police" movement to cut police budgets. Leftist politicians who claim to care about student safety eliminated school resource officers, kicking police officers out of their schools.

These same leftists made children suffer with school closures, COVID lockdowns, and forced masking, which caused spikes in depression, drug use, and suicide. As we all suspected, the Biden administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention coordinated with national teachers unions to prolong remote learning and mask mandates for political reasons unsupported by "the science." Now, the Left is confusing children by telling them they have no gender, are not created in the image of God, and can experiment with puberty blockers to change their gender without consequence.

Children are suffering, and we face a mental health crisis in our country because the radical Left has spent decades attacking the role of God in our society, attacking the church, attacking the nuclear family, and dismissing the important role fathers play in raising their sons. The Left tells our children they do not come from God, they are not born for any purpose, and they cannot obtain salvation. The Left embraces abortion without restriction because life has no grand meaning to them, and the ability to create life is not treated with the awe and reverence it deserves.

Conservatives cannot back down under pressure from these radical leftists. We must be strong in defending the central pillars of our society and the constitutional rights of the people, including the Second Amendment. Leftists only care about taking away the rights of law-abiding citizens to make themselves more powerful and to make citizens powerless.

Americans have a fundamental right to keep and bear arms that "shall not be infringed." I will continue to defend our Second Amendment rights as a member of Congress, and I have never supported the Left's gun control agenda or their push for red-flag gun confiscation.

As you watch statements from leftist politicians and liberal media figures attacking the Second Amendment, remember that leftist politicians and celebrities are all protected by walls and guns because they know that walls and guns are effective at keeping themselves and their families safe. Leftists believe they have a right to defend themselves they just don't believe you should have the same rights they do.

In times of tragedy and evil, we turn to our faith in the Lord and are guided by what unites us. As Americans, we are united by our belief that our divine rights come from our creator. As Christians, we are united by a shared purpose to serve God above ourselves. We cannot let those who are attempting to destroy our society's central pillars of family, faith, and freedom succeed. We must work together to defend our rights, our freedoms, and our American way of life.

Rep. Mary Miller is a Republican representing the 15th District of Illinois. She runs a small family farm with her husband, Chris, and is a member of the House Freedom Caucus, Republican Study Committee, and House Second Amendment Caucus.

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Warren Burger, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Supreme Court, 1969-1986, said and wrote:

The gun lobbys interpretation of the Second Amendment is one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the work fraud, on the American people by special interest groups that I have seen in my lifetime. The real purpose of the Second Amendment was to ensure that state armiesthe militiawould be maintained for the defense of the state. The very language of the Second Amendment refutes any argument that it was intended to guarantee every citizen an unfettered right to any kind of weapon he or she desires.

Former Chief Justice Warren Burger made his position clear in 1991 In an interview with Public Broadcasting and later in the same year in what we now call an Op-Ed article for the associated press.

It is long past time that we re-started this conversation.

The text of the Second Amendment reads; A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. Firearms are for the use of a militia.

Control of a militia is spelled out in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution. Congress is To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions. This is what a Militia is supposed to do.

Who tells the militia what to do and who controls it? Section 8 of Article 1 answers those questions: Congress is to provide for organizing, arming and disciplining the Militia and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by congress. Militias, and hence firearms, are completely under Governmental control.

How did we go from this, perfectly clear, outline of ownership and control of firearms to an 18 year old legally purchasing a military grade firearm and slaughtering 19 small children, two adults and inflicting life-changing wounds on 17 others? As Chief Justice Burger indicates, we have been the victims of one of the greatest pieces of fraud on the American public. It isnt just stealing money or goods; it is stealing lives.

The gun lobby went from being gun safety advocates to gun sales advocates and along the way have given rise to a great slaughter of Americans, many of them, children, in defense of a myth. There are many groups advocating myths in this county, but this particular one was reframed as a fundamental right and the cause was taken up by right-wing politicians in pursuit of votes.

This pursuit of election and power resulted in 45,222 firearms deaths in 2020, the last year for which statistics are available of which 24,292 were suicides and 19,384 were homicides. As gun laws loosen around the country, deaths go up. These arent peaceful deaths. Bones are shattered, heads are blown apart, brains splattered and chunks of flesh are ripped from often very young bodies.

The gun culture advocates stand before us defending the ownership of military grade weapons before the children have been buried. Their words and hands drip with the blood of the innocent and yet they continue to advocate for this great fraud; this great myth of the right to ownership of weapons of death. The gun lobby and their allies in congress and state legislatures took 40 years to get control of this issue and we need to reverse the trend, even if it takes another 40 years.

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The argument for citizens wanting to keep their firearms often goes to "They want to take away or Second Amendment", but when it's thought about, citizens don't have a right to own semi-automatic weapons. Even those in the military are not able to keep their military firearms. Also, those in the military have to qualify each year to operate those weapons. So, why do those who are trained to operate those types of firearms have to qualify each year, but regular citizens do not?

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