[Condor51]

NYT editorial:
After seven decades of holding that the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms is tied to raising a militia, the court reversed itself...

&%$# @#$& &%#@ NY slime IDIOTS!!
SCOTUS did NOT 'reverse' anything. They're referring to Miller and Miller only pertained to the &%$# #*&*ing Weapon and its use in 'the Militia' (sawed off shotgun). NOT that only the 'Militia' could bear arms.

Dammit to hell Justice Scalia even addressed that in the Majority Opinion. The darn thing is only 64 pages. Is that too much for the NY Slimes to read? Would reading that give them a brain freeze. Sheesh!!

Furthermore, SCOTUS never should have heard Miller then. He was dead, and his attorney didn't even appear before SCOTUS to argue on his behalf. The way it went the fix was basically in for the gubmint. So if anything did need overturning it WAS Miller.

[Ancesthntr]

Clearly, great minds (yours, mine, Scalia’s) think alike. I was busy composing while you beat me to the punch.

[wastedyears]

How did Miller die? I figured he was dead when he didn’t show up in court, when I was reading Unintended Consequences by John Ross.

[marktwain]

The story on Miller is even worse than you think. The trial judge was an anti-gun zealot in collusion with the Roosevelt administration. He set up the case deliberately so that there would be no evidence presented supporting the 2nd amendment. He was expected to be rewarded with an appointment to the Supreme Court for his partisan judicial activism, but died before the appointment was made.

Read the article at the link below. Even though it tries to slant things to the left, what actually happened is clear. It is far worse than even John Ross supposed. It is in PDF, which may be why it is not more widely circulated.

It needs to be.

THE PECULIAR STORY OF UNITED STATES V. MILLER

http://kotv.images.worldnow.com/images/incoming/PDF/0801/Law%20Review%20US%20v%20Miller.pdf