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To: Texas Federalist

You nailed it. For the first time ever, a federal court has stricken down a gun control law!!!!!!! I'm all atingle...

Note that they did so without incorporating the second amendment though. Since D.C. is a federal district, there was no need to incorporate because the bill of rights applies directly-- as opposed to via the 14th amendment for state laws.


615 posted on 03/09/2007 4:28:47 PM PST by Old Dirty Bastiat
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To: Old Dirty Bastiat
Note that they did so without incorporating the second amendment though. Since D.C. is a federal district, there was no need to incorporate because the bill of rights applies directly-- as opposed to via the 14th amendment for state laws.

Yes. But you have to agree the language used in section IV of the opinion is great dicta for a future incorporation argument, when the case arises. Also, the language virtually equating the rights conferred by the Second Amendment with that of the First is great stuff.

665 posted on 03/09/2007 6:28:35 PM PST by Texas Federalist (Gingrich '08)
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