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To: pro2A Mom
I agree, you are right! There are stronger cases out there, and the possibility of a friendlier Supreme Court in the future.

Don't forget the New Orleans Circuit ruling is still out there.

Name these "stronger cases", and provide a short disription of them. This case concerned the very types of arms that even the worst reading of the Miller case says are protected by the second amendment. It involves the sort that the framers of the 14th amendment stated would be protected from state infringement. The only thing that could have been better would be if it had been a challenge to the federal AW ban, just to simplify the issue down to a single point, rather than the two required in this case, namely "what does the Second Amendment do" and "does it do it to the states via the 14th amendment. There are also alot worse cases out there. Silveira and the others were all good guys, the case that the Court finally takes will probably involve some White Arayan Resistance scumbag who has shot up a church full of kids. You watch.

The 5th circuit courts ruling can, and will, be dismissed as mere dicta, that is language not directly related to the disposition of the case. Emerson did after all lose that case, and his RKBA, forever, for mere possesion of the same type of handgun issued to our troops, when under a boilerplate domestic restraining order of a type routinely issued in Texas courts. AFAIK, all of the other circuits agree with the 9th, that you do not have an individual right to keep and bear arms. So unless you live in the 5th circuits jurisdicition you're SOL. Even here in the 5th circuit, as long as there is a "reasonable basis" for any restrictions, and due process is observed, you're SOL.

This will only encourage the gun grabbers. Expect the new and improved federal assault weapons ban to be attached to some omnibus this or that law, by "unanamous consent", so that the CongressSlimes don't have to attach their names to it. That's how the Senate passed the recent "plastic gun" ban renewal. At minimum expect the current ban to be made permanent and further importation of regular capacity magazines, regardless of when manufactured, to be banned.

The dumb SOBs on the Court can't really understand what they've probably just done.

61 posted on 12/01/2003 10:23:11 AM PST by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
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To: El Gato
If the SCOTUS insists on treason, the best case in the world will not move them.
66 posted on 12/01/2003 10:30:54 AM PST by the gillman@blacklagoon.com
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To: El Gato
AFAIK=As far as I, what's the K?
80 posted on 12/01/2003 1:22:45 PM PST by neverdem (Say a prayer, identify your enemies, then either expose or annihilate them.)
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