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To: robertpaulsen

Do you mean the Cruikshank decision, or some other?


369 posted on 01/11/2007 11:12:55 AM PST by DBrow
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To: DBrow
"Do you mean the Cruikshank decision, or some other?"

US v Cruikshank is one. But I was referring to the lower federal courts -- the decisions of which the U.S. Supreme Court would examine before making some future decision about the second amendment.

Cases like Presser v. Illinois and Miller v. Texas. Then there's Hickman v. Block ("the Second Amendment is a right held by the states"), United States v. Nelson ("Later cases have analyzed the Second Amendment purely in terms of protecting state militias, rather than individual rights."), Quilici v. Morton Grove ("the debate surrounding the adoption of the Second and Fourteenth Amendments...has no relevance to the resolution of the controversy before us"), United States v. Warin ("it is clear that the Second Amendment guarantees a collective rather than an individual right"), Eckert v. Philadelphia and United States v. Johnson (the Second Amendment only confers a collective right of keeping and bearing arms"), and United States v. Tot ("not adopted with individual rights in mind, but as a protection for the States in the maintenance of their militia organizations").

Then there's a whole slew of cases from the ninth circuit, Silveira v. Lockyer, Fresno Rifle & Pistol Club v. Van de Kamp, San Diego County Gun Rights Committee v. Reno, and United States v. Mack.

For starters.

390 posted on 01/11/2007 12:15:18 PM PST by robertpaulsen
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