So the complaint was dismissed, because even though the government wants you to go through a background check every time you buy a gun from a dealer to make sure you’re not a prohibited person, the government is under no obligation, and cannot be held liable, for making sure prohibited persons are actually in the background check system
They’re onto the fact that the people prefer self defense over nanny state firearm restrictions - restrictions that do not deter victimizers but criminalize nonviolent and victimless acts of simple possession - and they are trying to close every liberty-hole they can conceive of to make sure we “do what we’re told” or be charged with a crime.
I can buy a few steel pipes, a cap, a nail, and a drill from any home improvement store, and I can use that to work on my house or I can make it into a shotgun, which may or may not be legal depending on where I am. I’m not committing any crime until I actually commit a crime, nor is the home improvement store committing a crime by selling me pipes.
Victories for the personal ownership and carrying of arms other than firearms sets precedent for future cases. If you have a right to keep and carry one type of arm, you have the right to keep and carry others.
"The decision may have implications for other government officials' blocking of critics on social media," said Joshua Geltzer, an constitutional law expert at Georgetown University.
