[jonestown]

MissAmericanPie wrote:

What ever happened to "A person shall be secure in his papers and possessions".

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Ask our resident expert on Constitutional obfuscation, robertpaulsen, robertpaulsen, robertpaulsen.

180 jones

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Paulsen would say it has not been incorporated yet so it doesn't exist except in DC where it doesn't exist.
182 chuck

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robertpaulsen opines :

The second amendment does not apply to the District of Columbia.

The District of Columbia has broad authority to regulate firearms, deriving its legislative powers from the Home Rule Act enacted in 1973.

That statute states:
"The Council of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized and empowered to make, and the Mayor of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized and empowered to enforce, all such usual and reasonable police regulations…as the Council may deem necessary for the regulation of firearms, projectiles, explosives, or weapons of any kind in the District of Columbia."

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The DC 'home rule act of '73' is an obvious infringement on the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

[Ken H]

Amendment II

William Rawle¹, A View of the Constitution of the United States 125--26 1829 (2d ed.)

"The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people. Such a flagitious¹ attempt could only be made under some general pretence by a state legislature. But if in any blind pursuit of inordinate power, either should attempt it, this amendment may be appealed to as a restraint on both."
--press-pubs.uchicago.edu/ founders/documents/amendIIs9.html

¹flagitious:  ADJECTIVE: Utterly reprehensible in nature or behavior: corrupt, degenerate, depraved, miscreant, perverse, rotten, unhealthy, villainous.
   --Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition.  1995.