In 2008, the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia called the prospect of a court ruling that fully automatic firearms were protected by the Second Amendment “startling.”
Two U.S. District Court judges have issued such rulings based on the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen.
Bruen states that a gun law is constitutional if it fits the plain text of the Second Amendment and has a historical analog from the time of the Second Amendment’s ratification.
Judges in Kansas and Mississippi found that the 1986 ban on civilian ownership of fully automatic firearms fails the Bruen test and is, therefore, unconstitutional….