If the "assault weapons" ban is reinstated, can I sue under the Americans With Disabilities Act?

WTF? Americans with Disabilities Act?

Let me explain...

When I was a kid, I broke my left arm on the playground at school, right at the elbow, through the ulna's growth plate. As a result, the ulna stopped growing, the radius kept growing, and the result was that I had a big knob of bone sticking out of my elbow, making me self-conscious, until I had surgery to remove the end of the radius when I was a teenager.

The long term side-effects of that adventure is that my left forearm is a good inch and a half shorter than my right forearm, and because the ligaments tightened in that arm, I cannot turn my left hand palm up. It only turns to the point where the hand is vertical, thumb up, but won't go any farther than that.

Try holding a rifle or shotgun without turning your trigger hand palm up. Yeah. It doesn't work.

So my particular solution to this problem is to get a shotgun or rifle with a pistol grip. So when I was shooting trap with my sister and her family, they were using good old fashioned duck guns with conventional wooden stocks, while I was shooting a baby-killing black assault shotgun with a pistol grip (and a heat shield, and a collapsible stock, and a side saddle. :evilgrin:)

So, if the "assault weapons" ban, or shall I say, the ban on evil-looking-black-Rambo-weapons-that-are-functionally-identical-to-Grandpa's-duck-gun is reinstated, I'm wondering if I could sue.

Just a thought.

Thanks for writing, and remember, there are no stupid questions ....

Still, it's another legitimate argument against such bans. I need long guns with pistol grips because of my bad arm - taking away my right to own such weapons would harm my ability to shoot.

not to shoot them.

To "Keep" arms is to possess them.

To "Bear" arms is to use them.

That's why we get to "Keep AND Bear Arms"

:-)

and I don't see one that refers to use.

1. To hold up; support.
2. To carry from one place to another; transport.
3. To carry in the mind; harbor: bear a grudge.
4. To transmit at large; relate: bearing glad tidings.
5. To have as a visible characteristic: bore a scar on the left arm.
6. To have as a quality; exhibit: "A thousand different shapes it bears" Abraham Cowley.
7. To carry (oneself) in a specified way; conduct: She bore herself with dignity.
8. To be accountable for; assume: bearing heavy responsibilities.
9. To have a tolerance for; endure: couldn't bear his lying.
10. To call for; warrant: This case bears investigation.
11. To give birth to: bore six children in five years.
12. To produce; yield: plants bearing flowers.
13. To offer; render: I will bear witness to the deed.
14. To move by or as if by steady pressure; push: "boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past" F. Scott Fitzgerald.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bear

:)

It would be worth pursuing if such an idiotic ban takes place.

Forego the "Collapsible stock," make sure your mag holds 5 or less, and your pistol grip alone will not qualify as "Assault" anyway. You'll be good to go.

On edit: Also, if you go with a pump and not a semi, it won't matter anyway.

listed any ONE feature, so just pistol grip would have been enough to qualify, for that particular piece of legislation. Previously it was a combination of features.

Couldn't really answer a question like this, without knowing what form any future ban, if any, would take.