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To: vannrox

And if you live in California it's not over even then! How a state, subservient to Federal Law, can withold rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment of the Federal Constitution and the lynchpin for our most precious Bill of Rights is beyond me. I wish someone with deep pockets would take them on. Why should someone from another state have more rights than I do?


6 posted on 09/10/2004 1:46:57 PM PDT by vigilence
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To: vigilence
And if you live in California it's not over even then! How a state, subservient to Federal Law, can withold rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment of the Federal Constitution

States are not subservient to federal law, they are subservient to the US Constitution, and via it to federal law only in those areas where the federal government has been explicitly granted power therein.

10 posted on 09/10/2004 1:57:05 PM PDT by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
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To: vigilence
The second amendment only applies to the federal government -- the states are bound only by their respective state constitutions.

In California's case, there is nothing in their state constitution which protects the RKBA.

24 posted on 09/11/2004 12:53:32 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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