Rinzler v. Carson

How courts have described this case

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• upholding constitutionality of statute making it unlawful for any person to “possess[] or control any short-barreled rifle, short-barreled shotgun, or machine gun which is, or may readily be made, operable”
• the machine gun is in “the arsenal of the public enemy and the gangster [with which he] wars on the State”
• sub-machine guns; \the Legislature may prohibit the possession of weapons which are ordinarily used for criminal and improper purposes\
• a municipality cannot forbid what the Legislature has expressly licensed, authorized or required, nor may it authorize what the Legislature has expressly forbidden
• municipality cannot forbid what the legislature has expressly licensed, authorized or required, nor may it authorize what the legislature has expressly forbidden
• municipality cannot forbid what the Legislature has authorized or required, nor may it authorize what the Legislature has forbidden

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).