[jimkress]

What's the next step in this process? Will it be appealed to the USSC?

[Feiny]

I am fairly sure it will be....and with the 9th record for being overturned.....

[mvpel]

The petition for en banc review of the Ninth Circuit's decision regarding the Nordyke v. King gun show ban case is still pending. The plaintiff's (Nordyke) brief was filed on April 1, and the defendant, Alameda County, has until June 1 to file their reply brief.

The decision should come a few weeks later in June or early July, unless their decision in Silveira influences the Nordyke case. Hopefully it won't.

It's interesting and encouraging that the research of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership regarding the impact of gun control laws in Nazi Germany and other totalitarian regimes has gained such currency in the gun control debate that it's alluded to by a Federal District Judge.

[harpseal]

What's the next step in this process? Will it be appealed to the USSC?

That is the only avenue of appeal left open but the big question is "Will the Supreme Court hear this case?" Anyone who says the know is merely spouting meaningless words. It would require intimate knowledge of the thoughts of a majority of the courts justices.

[Pistolshot]

We now have a Judicial Conflict between the 9th Circuit and the 5th Circuit courts. The 9th has declared the 2nd Amendment to be a 'collective' right, while the 5th has declared the 2nd an 'individual' right.

These two opinions are at odds as to a definitive meaning to the 2nd Amendment. Both cases will be appealed to the USSC for clarification and ruling. This is the judicial showdown gun-owners have long sought. The Supremes will have to decide the issue of what "the people" clearly will mean.