Internet Hunting

cybergrunt69 writes "An enterprising Texan, John Underwood currently has a website that lets you target-practice online with a .22 caliber rifle, but will soon start offering "hunting" abilities. He recently built a platform for about $10,000USD to house this new system on his 300 acre properly, but the Parks and Wildlife department is now scrambling to find ways to try and stop him. While this may sound like cheating to some people, this may be a large benefit to hunters with disabilities."

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Re:Gun rights primer

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A couple points:

The constitution mentions the importance of a well regulated militia. This leaves open the possiblity of regulation, which could go as far as banning certain types of weapons in certain cases. It has been clear for some time that not every type of armament is illegal. Nuclear weapons, to cite an extreme example, are not.

US vs. Miller set a precedent that not all weapons can be considered necessary for the existence of a well-regulated militia. "[I]n the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession or use of a 'shotgun having a barrel of less than 18 inches in length' at this time has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well- regulated militia, we cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear such an instrument." I would contend that the same remark could be made about a remote-controlled internet weapon.

This, of course, assumes that militias are still relevant in the modern US, something about which I am not convinced.