Newspaper Denounces Kansas Second Amendment Machine Gun Legal Fight

This morning we share predictable scorn from dead-tree editorialists who want to assure the public that they're not out to take away guns . . . Just the really cool firearms that might be legal after all and many criminals already possess. 

Check-it . . . 

The judge, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, may be legally in the right — there is no federal machine gun ban in 2024, and no state ban in Missouri or Kansas — but for decades, these guns have been restricted and outlawed and for good reason. We need a federal automatic weapons ban, and state bans of these weapons with no restrictions.

Now would be the time for gun safety advocates — and like-minded politicians — to remind people no one is seriously proposing to confiscate guns from law-abiding citizens. Nor should responsible gun lovers fret about infringement on their right to bear arms for self-defense or recreational purposes. But high-powered weapons capable of firing many, many rounds in seconds have no place in a civilized society.

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The Second Amendment can't realistically apply to high-powered weapons that fire many rounds per second. Stricter regulations are needed.