sawed-off

• “Not the saccharine Disney versions, but the unexpurgated Grimms, with their sawed-off heels and lopped-off heads and altogether dark and nasty vision.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Dark Side of Innocence

• “Like the monster in the horror movies, you can lock all the doors, barricade all the windows, grab a sawed-off shotgun and hide in the basement.”

  Simon & Schuster: One Season

• “In the case of federal laws, since a 1939 case involving sawed-off shotguns, United States v. Miller, the courts have held that the Second Amendment only confers a collective right to keep and bear arms, which must have a "reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia.”

  The Huffington Post: Kenneth C. Davis: A Right to Bare Arms? Arm Bears? The 2nd Amendment (Civics Primer #2)

• “Schwarzenegger called Nunez's sentence "excessive" because he received the same sentence as Ryan Jett, who was already on felony probation for possessing a sawed-off shotgun, and who actually stabbed Santos.”

  The Huffington Post: Last Minute Clemency Decision Could Tarnish Schwarzenegger's Legacy

• “– In Miller, the Court ruled that a sawed-off shotgun was not covered by the 2nd Amendment because it was not a military weapon.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » District Court Upholds D.C. Registration Requirement, “Assault Weapon” Ban, Ban on Large-Capacity Magazines

• “In Miller, the Court ruled that a sawed-off shotgun was not covered by the 2nd Amendment because it was not a military weapon.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » District Court Upholds D.C. Registration Requirement, “Assault Weapon” Ban, Ban on Large-Capacity Magazines

• “BMWTwisty says: cboldt: – In Miller, the Court ruled that a sawed-off shotgun was not covered by the 2nd Amendment because it was not a military weapon.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » District Court Upholds D.C. Registration Requirement, “Assault Weapon” Ban, Ban on Large-Capacity Magazines

• “It's just another restriction tacked on to the National Firearms Act of 1934, which didn't ban ownership but required the registration of submachineguns and sawed-off shotguns.”

  Why is it that the only full-auto firearms a civilian can own must have been manufactured and registered before may 1986?

• “Loaded with two slugs and a round bullet, its effect was that of a sawed-off shotgun.”

  CHAPTER XI

• “- Mexico problem back in 1848 when the white supremacists who ran it took half their territory and left them with a sawed-off country doomed to eternal subsistence agriculture, mindless of the future.”

  Wonk Room » CNN Airs Anti-Immigrant Front Group’s ‘Pro-Labor’ Incendiary Ad

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