Quick first glance at this lead had my eyes seeing NBA.
imagine my initial shock !
Posted on 02/01/2017 2:35:49 PM PST by SeekAndFind
After $30m in campaign ad buys and months of unflinching support for Donald Trump, the National Rifle Association has what it wanted: a supreme court nominee it views as a strong defender of gun rights.
The federal court judge Neil Gorsuch “will protect our right to keep and bear arms”, the gun rights group said on Tuesday night, in a swift endorsement of Trump’s supreme court pick.
Gun control advocates say that some of Gorsuch’s previous cases suggest he might support laws that “make it easier for felons to own guns”.
Unlike Thomas Hardiman, another federal judge who was also reportedly on Trump’s shortlist for the supreme court seat, Gorsuch does not have a clear record as a supporter of gun rights.
Gorsuch “doesn’t have any major second amendment cases”, Dave Kopel, a gun rights attorney and lifetime NRA member, said on Tuesday night.
But the smaller gun rights cases that have come before Gorsuch show a pattern: “Judge Gorsuch reads the second amendment in a very broad way, to protect even people who have been convicted of felonies,” said Adam Winkler, a gun rights expert at the University of California Los Angeles School of Law.
That suggests Gorsuch “would read laws that ban people from having guns narrowly”, Winkler said, and that he would oppose a lifetime prohibition on people with felony records owning guns.
“He doesn’t have a lot of cases, but the cases he does have very much fall in line with the NRA’s view,” Winkler said.
The nation’s largest gun control group, Everytown for Gun Safety, did not immediately oppose Gorsuch’s nomination, but it pushed for senators to ask the nominee “tough questions”.
“Neil Gorsuch’s record on gun-related cases indicates some willingness to make it easier for felons to own guns
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And the way the left keeps pushing for more violence, we're all gonna need them...
Quick first glance at this lead had my eyes seeing NBA.
imagine my initial shock !
Just in time to rule the new gun bans in CA unconstitutional.
So the people who champion restoring voting rights to felons (Gov. McAuliffe-Va.) are horrified that someone might consider restoring Second Amendment rights to the same people?
Thought he was an anti... going to have to look that up.
Gorsuch restores the court to the last iteration. We need one more to be assured decent 2A rulings. Ginsberg will now try to hang on past midterms in hopes of dems retaking the senate.
Winkler is a Constitutional lawyer.
He is not a fire breathing gun hater. In some ways he is more dangerous. He looks at the Second Amendment, and carefully devises ways to twist and undermine it with subtle arguments.
As an example, when Peruta held that there was a right to bear arms outside the home, that both open and concealed carry could not be banned, Winker opined that California should opt for open carry, and place as many roadblocks as possible in the path of open carry.
His argument was that would be easier to do than to regulate concealed carry, because carriers could be identified more easily, and social pressure brought to bear.
From my direct personal experience, 83 yr. old women don't have far to go. She'll die or gork out of the office.
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