{"id":1693125,"date":"2022-10-14T09:03:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T13:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1693125"},"modified":"2022-10-16T09:42:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T13:42:36","slug":"judge-rules-federal-ban-on-guns-with-removed-serial-numbers-is-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-rules-federal-ban-on-guns-with-removed-serial-numbers-is-unconstitutional\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Rules Federal Ban on Guns With Removed Serial Numbers Is Unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjudge-rules-federal-ban-on-guns-with-removed-serial-numbers-is-unconstitutional%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1693125&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A judge has ruled that a federal law banning guns that have had their serial numbers\u00a0removed is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>Serial numbers were\u00a0first required by the federal Gun Control Act of 1968 to allow guns to be traced. They were adopted in an effort to prevent illegal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-gun\">gun<\/a> sales.<\/p>\n<p>The law at issue prohibits any person from transporting a gun with the serial number\u00a0\u201caltered, obliterated, or removed,\u201d across state lines. It also prohibits them from possessing such a gun if it has ever been transported across state lines.<\/p>\n<p>The decision filed on Oct. 12 (<a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.wvsd.234171\/gov.uscourts.wvsd.234171.48.0.pdf\">pdf<\/a>), written by\u00a0U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin in Charleston, West Virginia, blocks the law from taking effect.<\/p>\n<p>The decision comes in a criminal case involving an Ohio man, Randy Price, whose gun that had its serial number removed was found in his car at a traffic stop in Charleston. He was charged with illegally possessing a gun without a serial number, and also with illegally possessing a gun as a felon.\u00a0Price had previously been convicted of involuntary manslaughter and aggravated robbery. Goodwin dismissed the former charge, but left in place the latter.<\/p>\n<p>Price argued that the law banning possession of a gun without a serial number is unconstitutional and cited\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/supreme-court-strikes-down-new-yorks-unconstitutional-concealed-carry-gun-law_4553435.html\">a landmark ruling<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/21pdf\/20-843_7j80.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) by the U.S. Supreme Court in June this year,\u00a0New York State Rifle &#038; Pistol Association v. Bruen.\u00a0The ruling stated that the government cannot restrict Americans\u2019 constitutional right to carry firearms in public for self defense, unless the restriction is\u00a0\u201cconsistent with this Nation\u2019s historical tradition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-firearm\">firearm<\/a> regulation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly if a firearm regulation is consistent with this Nation\u2019s historical tradition may a court conclude that the individual\u2019s conduct falls outside the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-second-amendment\">Second Amendment<\/a>\u2019s \u2018unqualified command,\u2019\u201d Thomas wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Goodwin,\u00a0a nominee of President Bill Clinton, found in his decision that the federal ban on guns with removed serial numbers is not consistent with the United States\u2019 \u201chistorical tradition of firearm regulation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He noted that a firearm without a serial number was not considered more dangerous compared to other firearms in 1791, when\u00a0the Second Amendment was adopted. At the time, \u201cserial numbers were not required, or even in common use,\u201d he said, adding that the serial numbers \u201carose only with the advent of the mass production of firearms,\u201d putting it outside of the \u201chistorical tradition of firearm regulation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny modern regulation that does not comport with the historical understanding of the right is to be deemed unconstitutional, regardless of how desirable or important that regulation may be in our modern society,\u201d Goodwin said in his decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile I recognize there is an argument \u2026 that firearms with an obliterated serial number are likely to be used in violent crime and therefore a prohibition on their possession is desirable, that argument is the exact type of means-end reasoning the Supreme Court has forbidden me from considering,\u201d he also wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The government argued that the federal ban is constitutional because it is a \u201ccommercial regulation\u201d that does not infringe on Americans\u2019 Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. 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