Guns for criminals? Texas judge’s gun rights ruling makes us less safe | Opinion
Various guns are displayed at a store on July 18, 2022, in Auburn, Maine. Most U.S. adults think gun violence is increasing nationwide and want to see gun laws made stricter. That's according to a new poll that finds broad public support for a variety of gun restrictions. The poll comes from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
But such is not the mind of Counts, who opens his 25-page opinion on longstanding federal law thusly: “This Court faces a predicament similar to Plato’s allegory of the cave.” In December, while charges were pending for both burglary and jumping bail, Quiroz decided he needed a handgun, in this case a .22 caliber semi-automatic M1911.
It was days later that NICS finally flagged Quiroz to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. He was arrested and charged with a violation of federal law for the illegal receipt of a firearm by a person under indictment, and for making a false statement that he was not under indictment.
That’s not good enough as a historical record. Or as Counts writes, “Yet the Government fails to explain why regulations enacted less than a century years [sic] ago count as ‘longstanding.’”The opinion goes on to selectively apply Colonial and post-Colonial history around gun restrictions in ways that defy common historical understanding of the way firearms were treated in that era.
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