WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court gets to write on a blank slate when it takes up the meaning of the Second Amendment “right to keep and bear arms” and the District of Columbia’s ban on handguns.
The nine justices have said almost nothing about gun rights, and their predecessors have likewise given no definitive answer to whether the Constitution protects an individual’s right to own guns or whether that right is somehow tied to service in a state militia.
The case that will be argued Tuesday is among the most closely watched of the term, drawing 68 briefs from outside groups. Most of those support an individual’s right to own a gun.
“This may be one of the only cases in our lifetime when the Supreme Court is going to interpret an important provision of our Constitution unencumbered by precedent,” said Georgetown University law professor Randy Barnett.
Dick Anthony Heller, 65, an armed security guard, sued the District after it rejected his application to keep a handgun at his home — about a mile from the court — for protection. His lawyers say the amendment plainly protects an individual’s right.
The amendment reads: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
Forty-four state constitutions contain some form of gun rights, which are not affected by the court’s consideration of Washington’s restrictions.
“There is almost no other enacted gun law that would be threatened by this case,” Barnett said.
“would be” scares the hell out of me..
I mean that’s like the proverbial…’My, what a precious baby, you have’. ‘The check is in the mail’. ‘Dog ate my homework’.
Who here thinks the A.C.L.U. with a green light from SCOTUS, will let this go?
The Left has always wanted to disarm this nation and they will try, pry, and cry everything, in their use of freedoms given, to stifle those same freedoms.
Did Islam learn this trick from the Left, or did the Left see the success of the Islamics, with this game?
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