[shortstop]

Can you imagine the uproar if a reporter had to get a license from the government before he could exercise freedom of the press?

[383rr]

Ping

[theBuckwheat]

10 Megabytes of SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.

[patton]

Might help if the author had read US v. Miller

[MediaMole]

How is publishing a handbook on a 73-year-old law “walking on the Second Amendment again?”

[TLI]

And a limited freedom is not a freedom.

A limited freedom is a freedom "infringed".

Now just where have I heard that phrase?

[zeugma]

Has the author even read the Miller decision? It doesn't say what he apparently think it does.

 

[DCBryan1]

LOL! Read the appendix and Chapter 2.

Spud guns are "destructive devices" that need the $200.00 transfer tax.

..snipet...

Also, combustionalble gas is "a firearm" if the Tech branch says so. (Don't hold breath),

Finally, my favorite, soda cans taped on a .22 or a pillow on your handgun to muffel the noise needs to be registered.

[Teacher317]

And a limited freedom is not a freedom.

Other than abortion and Freedom of the Press, what right is unlimited?

Free Speech: content-neutral restrictions are easily passed, and Hate Crime laws are often content-specific.
Free Exercise: can't have prayers at school convocations, etc.
Assembly: time/place/manner restrictions are common.
Marriage is considered a fundamental right, but you're limited to one gender in your choice (not saying it's good or bad, only that it is expressly a limitation).
Every right is pretty much restricted when you're in jail, or can be restricted if you're a minor.

[Ancesthntr]

It will be interesting (to say the least) to see if DC actually does appeal Parker and, if so, what the USSC decides. The '86 FOPA ban on new registrations of full autos for civilians should be next on the chopping block if Parker is upheld - because the fact pattern is almost identical, with the only difference as to the banned item being pistols vs. full autos.

Also interesting is that the '86 FOPA prevents the government from collecting the $200 tax mandated in the '34 NFA on full autos. For YEARS the government has argued that the '34 NFA is constitutional because it was a taxing provision, not a ban on a class of guns. Well, the FOPA makes a BIG STEAMING LIE out of that arguement - and if I had the skill, time and money to bring that case to court (i.e. have someone apply for BATFE permission to obtain a post-'86 full auto, and let them deny based on FOPA) and challenge it on this basis alone.

Its going to get interesting in the next couple of years. Let's hope that the USSC agrees with the DC Circuit that the 2nd protects a fundamental right, and that this then leads to the repeal of at least the FOPA, if not the whole '34 NFA.

[dhuffman@awod.com]

If the First Amendment was so infringed as they would the Second Amendment, would we have to read their drivel?

Either we are equal or we are not. Good people ought to be armed where they will, with wits and guns and the truth. NRA KMA$$