Ban On Guns With Serial Numbers Removed Is Unconstitutional

Above, old rifles on display at the Hubbell Trading Post in Arizona.
How many have no serial numbers? Photo by Armand Vaquer.

This is sure to give liberals apoplexy!

A federal judge has ruled that bans on guns with serial numbers removed are unconstitutional. 

According U.S. News & World Report:

(Reuters) -A federal judge in West Virginia has ruled that a federal ban on possessing a gun with its serial number removed is unconstitutional, the first such ruling since the U.S. Supreme Court dramatically expanded gun rights in June.

 U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin in Charleston on Wednesday found that the law was not consistent with the United States' "historical tradition of firearm regulation," the new standard laid out by the Supreme Court in its landmark ruling.

The decision came in a criminal case charging a man, Randy Price, with illegally possessing a gun with the serial number removed that was found in his car. The judge dismissed that charge, though Price is still charged with illegally possessing the gun after being convicted of previous felonies.

No doubt this decision will be appealed.  

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