Yep, it’s been 70 years since the Supreme Court has directly ruled on the meaning of the 2nd amendment. I have a feeling this will be an historic ruling, and the liberals will be driven nuts by a court ruling that recognizes the plain language of the 2nd amendment.
So what will happen if they do indeed decide that D.C.’s ban is legitimate, and that it is not an individual right, but a collective one, belonging to various organized entities, including state and federal?
Note: I certainly hope it doesn’t happen that way, but it is a possibility.
“Yep, it’s been 70 years since the Supreme Court has directly ruled on the meaning of the 2nd amendment.”
And the last time they did it, there wasn’t even an opposing lawyer, and the case appeared to be fast-tracked to the Supremes for the purpose of validating the Gun National Firearms Act of 1934.
And the Supremes actually partially validated the 2nd Amendment by saying that a short-barrelled shotgun was not protected by the 2nd Amendment, _only_ because it wasn’t militarily useful, and not used by military/police at the time. Thus, they indirectly ruled that militarily useful firearms were protected.
Another interesting fact of the ‘34 NFA is that the Feds tried to claim it was not a gun control act at all, but rather a revenue mesure, since it did not actually ban anything, and instead imposed a tax on these items. The NFA is in the Internet Revenue Code.
It wasn’t until the ‘68 Gun Control Act that the Feds abandoned the pretense that they weren’t trying to regulate guns.
“Yep, it’s been 70 years since the Supreme Court has directly ruled on the meaning of the 2nd amendment. I have a feeling this will be an historic ruling, and the liberals will be driven nuts by a court ruling that recognizes the plain language of the 2nd amendment.”
I don’t see how they can rule favorably in this. How can we continue our slide into a socialist police state if the people are allowed to own all those assault rifles? A ruling in favor of an individual right would wreck years of effort.
Of course, there is always the chance that the Court will rule against the 2nd Amdt. More likely the ruling will be very narrow and turn on whether a preposition was spelled wrong in the original filing and will decide nothing substantial.