A district court in Kansas ruled in August that the federal law prohibiting the possession of machineguns”failed the test set out in Bruen.
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A district court in Kansas ruled in August that the federal law prohibiting the possession of “machineguns” failed the test set out in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen (2022). “The court finds that the Second Amendment applies to the weapons charged because they are ‘bearable arms’ within the original meaning of the amendment. The court further finds that the government has failed to establish that this nation’s history of gun regulation justifies the application of 18 U.S.C. § 922(o) to Defendant.”
The case is United States v. Morgan, and the defendant, Tamori Morgan, was charged with two counts of possessing a “machinegun” (a machinegun, and a full-auto switch “machinegun conversion device”) in violation of federal law.
