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To: RKV

"Section 7-2507.02, like the bar on carrying a pistol within the home, amounts to a complete prohibition on the lawful use of handguns for self-defense. As such, we hold it unconstitutional."

Is this the first time a federal court has struck down a gun control law as unconstitutional under the second amendment?!

HISTORIC!!!!


37 posted on 03/09/2007 4:21:11 PM PST by Old Dirty Bastiat
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To: Old Dirty Bastiat
Is this the first time a federal court has struck down a gun control law as unconstitutional under the second amendment?!

No, many federal district courts have done so. One even ruled that the National Firearms Act, as amended by the 1986 Gun Owners Protection Act, is unconstitutional, but not on second amendment grounds. (But their ruling was almost as good, saying that Congress has no power to *ban* anything. They can tax the snot out of it, but they can't ban it, unless, like printing your own money, their is delegated federal power involved.

It may however be the first time a Federal Appeals Court has struck down a gun control law based on second amendment considerations.

41 posted on 03/09/2007 4:37:37 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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