I posted the CATO Institute's reply to this bit of political shenanigans on this over here.
Posted on 07/21/2003 3:40:04 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
"Months before Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) introduced legislation to repeal the District's 27-year-old handgun ban, two gun rights groups were trying to get the law struck down in U.S. District Court," reports The Washington Post.
"But instead of working together, the Cato Institute and the National Rifle Association have filed separate lawsuits against the gun ban and have disagreed with each other's legal tactics."
In a July 17 news release, Senior Fellow Bob Levy, one of the attorneys involved in a lawsuit challenging the handgun ban, says that the Hatch bill is an attempt to derail the lawsuit.
"Hatch and the National Rifle Association (NRA) have acted to prevent the Supreme Court from deciding whether the Second Amendment secures an individual right to keep and bear arms," writes Levy. "Yes, the rights of D.C. residents can be vindicated by either legislation or litigation. But there's no question that a narrow bill aimed at the D.C. Code would have negligible impact on gun owners' rights when contrasted with an unambiguous pronouncement, applicable across the nation, from the U.S. Supreme Court."
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I posted the CATO Institute's reply to this bit of political shenanigans on this over here.
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