DC gun ban case

topic posted Tue, June 24, 2008 - 8:50 AM by  Cliff
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Will be decided soon maybe this or next week

Jeffry Toobin and the Christian Science Monitor think the Justices will do some thing important.
www.csmonitor.com/2008/0319...-usju.html

Maybe even incorporate the Second Amendment onto the states with some trestrictions as Toobin said: "holding that you can get a hand gun but not a surface to air missile."

I have said before and I still think that the Court is going to do very, very little. That when they are done that there be no change outside of maybve altering the applicability of the DC ban.
In my experience the Supremes tend not to show their cards. In fact many judges at appellate level and higher tend to appear as if they are leaning in a direction in which they are not going to end up. You can be arguing an appeal and the judge giving you the harshest rash of shit may be your strongest advocate on the panel.

I think that when it's all over there won't be any changes in the gun ownership lives of any one outside DC.

But hoping for the Second amendment to be incorporated as to the states is - well - a nice thing to hope for.

Here's to hope~!!

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Cliff
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  • Re: DC gun ban case

    Fri, July 11, 2008 - 2:41 PM
    Ding Dong! The witch is dead!
    • Re: DC gun ban case

      Mon, July 14, 2008 - 9:21 AM
      YAh huh? As I predicted there are no real changes across the country at all.

      States and municipalities can still regulate about as harshly as they please so long as they don't try a "total ban." Which of course means they could try to limit caliber and size and even ban all but single shot breach loaders. The result would be more litigation and more high court holdings slowly drawing closer to a bright line. But the supreme Court is loath to articulate a bright line.

      And damn-it-all-to-hell they did not incorporate the second amendment unto the states.

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