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To: calex59
Gun laws such as this are unconstitutional

And were declared so by the D.C. Appellate court just a couple of weeks ago.

Unfortunately, I believe that the laws are still in place until the Great and Wondrous Federal City decides if it wants to appeal (they almost certainly will).

18 posted on 03/27/2007 10:42:22 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: Regulator

You don't really believe that the Constitution makes the Secret Service powerless to prevent people from carrying concealed firearms in the presence of the President, do you?

Do you?


25 posted on 03/27/2007 10:46:17 AM PDT by Vicomte13 (Le chien aboie; la caravane passe.)
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To: Regulator
Unfortunately, I believe that the laws are still in place until the Great and Wondrous Federal City decides if it wants to appeal (they almost certainly will).

Unless the Judges explicitly put a "Stay" on their ruling, which AFAIK they did not, the law is dead the moment they issued their ruling. However the ruling probably did not extend to keeping and bearing in the Halls of Congress... but then again, maybe it did. It seems to extend only to keeping, and bearing on one's own property, but that's not 100% clear just from reading the opinion, at least to me and on just a quick read through.

287 posted on 03/27/2007 11:33:41 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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