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The Supreme Court on Monday turned away an appeal by a group of gun rights advocates seeking to overturn Maryland's ban on assault-style rifles and high-capacity magazines under the Second Amendment.

The decision, a major win for gun safety advocates, leaves in place a ruling by the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals which ruled that the state may constitutionally prohibit sale and possession of the weapons.

The state legislation, enacted in 2013 after the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, specifically targets the AR-15 -- the most popular rifle in America with 20-30 million in circulation. They are legal in 41 of the 50 states.

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[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Real life shot guns are effective at a longer range than video games. Not counting the various ammunition types you can use. Birdshot might not kill at 100 yards, but you're still not wanting to get hit by it, especially near the face.

[–] PirateFrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Paul Harrell tested birdshot at 100 yards. It fails to penetrate a t-shirt, and gets very few hits at that range.

LuckyGunner tested Buckshot at 100 yards. It was still deadly, but few pellets will hit.

Shotgun Slugs are effective out to 100 yards.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Birdshot from 100 yards will hurt less than a paintball at 50 yards. Birdshot at 100 yards likely wouldn't even break the skin of a human. And you're trying to tell me about video games? Fucking pistols are basically useless at 100 yards, let alone a shotgun. And in the non-existent situation where you knew what you're talking about, I single shot targets with iron sites from 500m with an m249, which isn't as accurate as an m16, m4, or m14 etc.

So tell me again about how life isn't like a video game. My guess is that you've never even held one considering how many wrong points you had in only 3 sentences. And even shotgun slugs are inaccurate at a distance. Saying things as fact as if you know things you don't, is how we got trump in the White house.

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Making a claim stating I have "wrong points" while making a bunch of false claims and for some reason bragging about video games, doesn't mean you are correct in anything you said.

Please go get shot in the face by bird shot from 100 yards and report back to us.

Please also stop comparing real guns to video games.

I also don't know where you got "three" from, but it's pretty clear you are delusional and live outside reality.

Is this you? You claim to have zero experience with shotguns, and yet here you are trying to be a subject matter expert. https://lemmy.world/post/27230270

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Zero experience USING shotguns doesn't mean I don't know ranges of weapons. Beyond 50m a pistol is essentially worthless. I qualified expert on the US army on the M9. I feel that is enough relevant experience to know that a fucking shotgun has less range than a pistol. Quit trying to go through my shit for some kind of gotcha when it doesn't exist. It's shameful that you went to such effort for such little result and still acted like you made some point with it. Put at least one round downrange before you say something about it.

Edit: also, you were the one who mentioned video games first, not I.

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Such effort? Buddy, it's literally the first post when opening your account.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

By the time it reaches 100m it's already traveled 2-3 times it's effective range and at that point is moving slow enough to be as effective as throwing a handful of small pebbles. Seriously do fuck off with your make believe knowledge.

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

Thanks for agreeing with what I originally said, I guess.