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Good news for gun owners

Devil Doc

Devil Doc

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The Supreme Court has upheld the decision by the Appellate court in the Washington DC gun case. This means for the first time in American history The 2nd Amendment has been ruled an individual right by the Supreme Court. I heard this on a right wing radio station while in my truck. For some reason I haven't been able to find anything about it on the more liberal news outlets.

Doc.
 
That is great news. Do you have any idea what affect this decision will have on existing law. Both Federal and State?

Here in (the Peoples Republic of) California, they have made it very difficult for law abiding gun owners. Not only have they made it difficult to obtain firearms, impossible for some, it is difficult to find a place to leaglly shoot many of them. I hope this is a step toward eliminating some of these overly restrictive laws.
 
Devil Doc said:
The Supreme Court has upheld the decision by the Appellate court in the Washington DC gun case. This means for the first time in American history The 2nd Amendment has been ruled an individual right by the Supreme Court. I heard this on a right wing radio station while in my truck. For some reason I haven't been able to find anything about it on the more liberal news outlets.

Doc.
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Doc -

As of this morning, the SCOTUS hadn't taken any action on DC's Cert. request or the related cross petition, and it was thought that we wouldn't hear any more for 2 weeks.

Did the station you heard this on give a source?
 
None of the gun boards I normally view, nor scotusblog.com, nor any news outlets that I can find have anything new noted.

From what Doc wrote, it sounds like someone is saying that SCOTUS denied Cert. Not a good thing, IMO, as it would apply only to DC.

It is in the interest of those concerned with the Bill of Rights that Cert. be granted, the case heard, and a ruling that Amendment II codifies an individual right be handed down.

JMO, of course.
 
Looks like (acording to NRA-ILA quoted on SIG Forum) the decision announcement has been put off.... :( Being part time from Massachusetts, I'd really like the SCOTUS to hear it and re-affirm our individual rights.
 
I don't know why this was ever even a debate, every place that I see 'the people' in the Constitution, it is talking about the individual citizens of the United States. Hell, its the 2nd and 3rd word in the Preamble 'We the People'!
 
Just an update:

The Supreme Court has decided that they will hear this case in narrowly-defined but important terms. Arguments probably in the Spring sometime.
 
What are they going to do? Outlaw owning firearms? Just how would they go about collecting them? I will not let anyone come into my house, and take my guns while I stand there. If they decide to take anything that far I hope they have one heck of a plan. Out of the people that I shoot with I don't know anyone who would allow them to come in and take them. They probably would after they were out of bullets, but not until then.
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I have not heard a whole lot about the DC ban, but my understanding is that it is only handguns, not rifles/shotguns. Tigger is right, the court granted cert. and will hear the case. Should be a very interesting outcome as the court is now more conservative.
 
I'm not so sure. The two Italians, Thomas and Roberts will vote for individual rights. After them, it's a crap shoot.

Doc.
 
Mike33 said:
I have not heard a whole lot about the DC ban, but my understanding is that it is only handguns, not rifles/shotguns. Tigger is right, the court granted cert. and will hear the case. Should be a very interesting outcome as the court is now more conservative.
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Since like 76 you have not been able to buy handguns as a resident of DC. If you had one up to that time it must be registered. Shotguns or PC long guns must be unloaded and kind of disassembled and locked up.

Some residents, including one person from the Cato institute, challenged the HG ban on 2A grounds.

Its could literally start a waterfall of gun laws appeals.

If they rule that it is unconstitutional I see a tidal wave of appeals against existing gunlaws from all corners of the country.

If they go the other way its would be very bad.

I was forwarded an e-mail from the Brady bunch and they are really quivering in their boots and begging for money to lawyer up. I guess that makes me fell kind of good.
 
Devil Doc said:
I'm not so sure. The two Italians, Thomas and Roberts will vote for individual rights. After them, it's a crap shoot.

Doc.
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Would that I trusted Scalia more than I do. I expect that he'll come down on the right side of this, since the "individual right" in this case fits within his political/moral paradigm.
 
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