“The core issue of “judicial scrutiny” is now established — better than we had dreamed — in what will be known as Famous Footnote #27 (p56). “
Prior to the footnot, Scalia slams the idea of using a footnote to establish legal precedence.
He stated his opinion, IOW, in the footnote, but made sure it was debateable.
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Good quote. The grabbers can't allow a distinction between a firearm in the hands of a responsible law abiding person and a firearm in the hands of a violent felon. Their bogus arguments couldn't stand up.
Grand Slam!
But we have. New Orleans, 1814. Lots of folks not in any organzied militia took up their private arms, heck many of them were Frenchmen!. And kicked Redcoat assets... with the help of some Pirates exercising their RKBA, and skill with cannons. :) They supplied some of the cannons as well.
Wake Island, 1941-42. Civilian contractors, some of whom were military veterans, took up arms alongside the Marines to try to fend off the Japanese.
And those are just two examples.
One of these days some armed citizen will stop an example of Sudden Jihad Syndrome, assuming that hasn't already happened but was kept more or less quiet. If most of the action hadn't been in DC and Maryland, it might have occurred with the Black Jihadis known as the Beltway Snipers.