Posted on 06/08/2005 6:42:11 AM PDT by gieriscm
This is a very interesting - and quick - development, considering the Raich decision was only released this past Monday.
If they rule on this one as the ruled on the MedPot one, then there is nothing left to do but start over with a new government.
Maadi-Griffin trial case.
Again.
So be it. A may their Gods forgive them.
I don't recall this case.
Can you give me a quick overview?
This won't give a "quick" overview, but is well worth reading to get the case history as well as the connection to Raich, which was just decided in the gov't favor last Monday.
Afterwords, he tried to pick up the pieces of his business and sell a parts kit for his popular .50 Maadi-Griffin rifle. The receiver needed final machining by a gun smith before it could be assembled. The BATFE busted him for felon in possession of a firearm as they felt it was still too easy to assemble.
Government justification for doing so is the familiar Commerce Clause/ Title 18 Sect 922(o) that people like us have come to know and hate for the UnConstitutional spin on FedGov power that it is. F*ckers still can't get it into their tiny little heads that "infringement" is "infringement" regardless of what they think.
Ok, I remember now.
We're screwed, would be my guess.
Only Thomas is at all likely to make a correct interpretation in this instance, I'm afraid. Maybe not even him.
The second amendment means nothing to the Nazgul.
See how the dominos fall ping.
They think it's ok to repeal the amendment, just don't attach any fringes to it.
Otherwise, plant some flowers in rememberance and prepare for bad times ahead.
There are but a few who remember the Republic.
Let me guess: 6-3, majority opinion written by Scalia:
"We find that steel production is a major source of interstate commerce, and therefore find that manufacture, possession, and sale of firearms, which are made of steel, can be banned by Congress properly under the interstate commerce clause. Such a ban does not conflict with the Second Amendment, because when it was written, steel wasn't the major item of commerce at the time that it is today. Conviction upheld, and pleeeeese, Congress get these things off the streets ASAP!"
A few is all it takes.
"See how the dominos fall ping."
I'm almost ashamed to say this, but I kind of hope they rule the same as they did on Raich. Maybe then, people will see that IT'S NOT ABOUT POT, IT'S ABOUT INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS.
I baked a cake today that I did not buy from an out-of-state manufacturer. I think they do make and sell cakes in North Carolina, but I live in VA. Am I allowed to eat it?
I am one.
Once they start doing that, then it is inevitable that an appeal to force of arms is the only way to get them to leave us alone again.
Things will have to get worse before they can get better.
I have every confidence that they will.
Ditto.
Note my tagline.
Stay well, stay safe, Yorktown.
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