Big Ninja Lobby declared winner today! James Hong smiles!As a child of the 1980s, martial arts films were all the rage. Every other movie seemed to feature “ninja” in the title or something like that. As a result, almost every male of my generation grew up knowing martial arts weapons by name. Especially for kids who were too young to own firearms, martial arts weapons were something we could probably get and feel a little safer.
New York, in particular, has traditionally taken a more dim view of the weapons.
That doesn’t come as a surprise. After all, the state of New York seems to prefer potential victims of crime remain disarmed at all times.
However, a federal court just handed the city an interesting defeat. It seems it has ruled that the Second Amendment extends to weapons like nunchucks.
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Maloney pointed out to the court that 64,890 factory-produced metal and wood nunchakus have been sold to folks in this country since 1995. That’s enough to make them common.
The court sided with him, as it should have.
For most of us, when we think of the Second Amendment, we think of guns. Naturally.
But the thing is, it’s the right to keep and bear arms. That includes weapons like nunchucks, even if they’re essentially obsolete in most ways. That’s important because it also protects the next kind of weapon. Technology advances, after all. The Kentucky rifle was the standard civilian firearm when the Second Amendment was written, but the descriptor of “arms” protected repeating firearms when they were introduced. It means it should protect whatever firearms come next, even if we don’t live to see that day.
By encompassing all weapons as “arms,” it goes on to protect those that simply don’t exist.
Odd that pieces of wood/plastic and chain are protected, but not plastic stocks?