To: ironwill
The 9th Circuit "incorporated" the 2nd Amendment. IOW: The Second applies to the States (at least in the 9th Circuit) via the 14th Amendment.
Absent incorporation, the Amendment would not have applied to the States.
To: freedomwarrior998; ctdonath2
Ah...thanks for the interpretation.
32 posted on
04/20/2009 10:30:16 AM PDT by
ironwill
(I want my daddy's records.)
To: freedomwarrior998
Let me see if I can work my way through this, in Heller the SCOTUS ruling held that the 2nd Amendment was an individual right under the Constitution but didn’t specifically state that their decision in Heller was binding on the 50 states; is that the point of the “incorporation” interpretation by the 9th?
96 posted on
04/20/2009 12:34:26 PM PDT by
Old Professer
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