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Pretty much the left owns every political position they want. The gun thing was the last one they didn’t have control of.
I believe it takes only the votes of four justices for the court to take a case. Obviously at least 6 justices didn’t think there was anything to decide and that the lower court was right.
Let the lower courts do the dirty work, then decline to enter the fray.
Nice.
Obama approves.
Congress is AWOL. Again.
These are puny peripheral issues.
The important cases are the state bans of semi-auto rifles, and the defacto state bans on bearing arms outside the home.
They won’t duck those.
And once it is established that the “right to bear arms” includes carrying a loaded pistol outside the home, it will then be the right time to extend that to 18-20 year old adults.
The case in which DC residents can’t buy in VA will be largely addressed when DC gets their rights more fully restored.
C O W A R D S ! ! ! ! !.................
In my opinion, someone wants these cases to wait until there are more leftists on the the SCROTUS.
Who gives a crap what the law says anymore about this?
We have a lawless president, a lawless AG and a lawless congress.
Why should we worry about laws when they aren’t enforced by the “lawmakers” or “enforcers”?
They can’t shoot us all.
“...dating back to 1968, that make it illegal for firearms dealers to sell guns or ammunition to anyone under 21...”
There is no federal law against selling guns/ammo to those under 21.
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Basically the SCOTUS refusing to wade into politically turbulent waters because they’re wusses. That was why they were given lifelong employment, to be able to stay above such considerations. Another in a long line of indicators that our republic no longer works.
Crooked lawyers with black robes.
Also, note that John Bingham, the main author of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, had officially clarified in the congressional record that the 14th Amendment applied the 2nd Amendment to the states. See the 2nd Amendment in Bingham's discussion roughly in the middle of the 2nd column of the page at the following link.
Appendix to the Congressional Globe
Free people don’t need to ask permission.
The fix is in?
bkmk
The court will decline any case that strengthens gun rights.
They accept all cases where they can weaken them.
The US courts are no longer on our side.
Some perspective here, folks. It took SC(R)OTUS over 70 years to take on Heller from the last seminal 2A case which was Miller.
As it stands, the really interesting case is the one in the 9th circus. That one is not ripe for an appeal to SC(R)OTUS until we see what happens en banc. If it stands en banc, then I think we’ll have a day in court.
Heller notwithstanding, I’m not a fan of the go-to-court strategy. Trusting our liberties to 9 political hacks in black muumuus just doesn’t appeal to me.
and America takes another one in the........