[Niteranger68]

Ginsberg sounds like she just woke from a coma. What a complete buffoon!

[fishhound]

Does anyone know how this decision can drill down to the problem of local liscensing authorities, in states,regulating concealed carry permits.

[Free Vulcan]

Transcript is up on the SCOTUS site. Link here:

http://www.supremecourtus.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/07-290.pdf

[GnL]

I listened to the entire arguments. I believe the 2nd Amendment will be held to mean an individual right. The breakdown will be:

For individual right:
Roberts
Scalia
Thomas
Kennedy
Alito

For collective/militia service:
Breyer
Souter
Ginsburg
Stevens

I don't think they will rule on degree of scrutiny, merely will decide that the D.C. ban goes too far. Roberts' questions leads me to think it will be a narrow decision. What restrictions are Constitutional will be left for another day. Gura conceded the restrictions on machine guns and "plastic guns" (whatever the hell those are). For the sake of this decision that is ok. Hopefully the follow on decisions regarding scrutiny will be argued by someone less willing to concede the application of specific firearms.

[Pharmboy]

Scarborough predicted on Morning Joe today that Kennedy would fall in line with the libs on this and we would lose. Wrong again,Joe...

[Former Proud Canadian]

bump

[NewJerseyJoe]

If you have RealPlayer, you can watch the arguments if you missed it. Open RealPlayer, click File > Open, and copy/paste this into the field:

rtsp://video.c-span.org/archive/sc/sc031808_2amendment.rm

After a short delay (depending on speed of your Internet connection), it should start playing.

If you use a file download manager such as Net Transport, you can save the file (99.5 MB) to your hard drive...

[redgolum]

Someone tell me a true review of what happened? I mean, it sounds from the comments that things went well for the 2nd amendment today, but a liberal coworker said the opposite (basically she expects all guns to be banned by next year), and that she had read it on some blog site that was following CSPAN also.

So what really happened? Is this the only hearing or will there be more?

[syriacus]

Barack Obama's friend, the former corrupt Alderman Dorothy Tillman of Chicago, thinks that it is wrong to allow people to use guns to defend their homes.

Defending your home = War on black males!

Chicago Alderman Dorothy Tillman,... said the law will "lead to open war on black males." .... "It's almost a way to eliminate people. Black men will be under the ground more than ever."

[seanrobins]

Go to this post for a transcript of the oral argument:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987832/posts

[digital-olive]

I can exhale now!!! I hoped (and still hope) this doesn’t come up in 2 years.(more so ever)

[2nd amendment mama]

Here's a photo of basil, aka Mari Thompson, the President of Second Amendment Sisters presenting Dick Heller with a SAS t-shirt. We also honored him with a Lifetime membership in SAS.