Posted on 06/28/2010 7:31:39 AM PDT by docbnj
Court rules for gun rights, strikes Chicago handgun ban In another dramatic victory for firearm owners, the Supreme Court has ruled unconstitutional Chicago, Illinois' 28-year-old strict ban on handgun ownership, a potentially far-reaching case over the ability of state and local governments to enforce limits on weapons.
A conservative majority of justices on Monday reiterated its two-year-old conclusion the Constitution gives individuals equal or greater power than states on the issue of possession of certain firearms for self-protection.
The court, however, said local jurisdictions still retain the flexibility to preserve some "reasonable" gun control measures currently in place nationwide.
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“Anyway, I don’t trust SCOTUS, not one bit, when it comes to the second amendment. Not even Thomas.”
Which is exactly why there is a 2nd Amendment.... The Founders/Framers didn’t trust any part of the “Government” either! Even the one they were in the process of creating. Only a fool would trust his Life, Liberty, or Happiness to the Kids in Washington......
One more SC appointment and this will be reversed.
"Reasonable" to a liberal is NO Guns ... I don't understand why this is so ambiguous.
Put that in your keister Daley!
...concluding that the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates the Second Amendment right, recognized in Heller, to keep and bear arms for the purpose of self-defense.
An absolute, clear victory on incorporation.
Self-defense is a basic right, recognized by many legal systems from ancient times to the present, and the Heller Court held that individual self-defense is “the central component” of the SecondAmendment right.
Sweeeet! No more "hunting or sporting use" BS.
Court found that this right applies to handguns because they are “the most preferred firearm in the nation to ‘keep’ and use for protection of one’s home and family,
So no more treating handguns as if they were some specially deadly weapon, not covered under the 2A.
the Fourteenth Amendment’s Framers and ratifiers counted the right to keep and bear arms among those fundamentalrights necessary to the Nation’s system of ordered liberty.
One of the big claims of the gun grabbers is that RTKBA is not a "fundamental" right. This reaffirms that it is.
In Heller, however, we expressly rejected the argument that the scope of the Second Amendment right should be determined by judicial interest balancing
This is important. The "interest balancing" criteria weakens whatever it's being applied to, where they can eliminate a right because they think it balances towards the interest of the state, security, safety, etc., in a specific case. That it is a fundamental right not subject to interest balancing means lawmakers and inferior judges have to be very careful about infringing it.
After that, the majority did a sound trashing of the dissents, with Scalia destroying Stevens' arguments. Thomas did a great concurrence, differing only in saying that the 2A is a privilege of citizenship and should be incorporated through the privileges and immunities clause instead of due process. I think I agree.
This is the statement that will come back to bite us in the a**. It will take years of going back to court on every little obnoxious gun law in order to finally get SHALL issue in every state and to affirm that we have the right to open carry. I wonder how this will affect CAs stupid law on open carrying of empty firearms.
It’s a good day for the Constitution.
And NO registration!
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The gun ban did such a great job of reducing crime. Now that it’s gone, we’re doomed.
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Making bets on Kentucky Derby Day
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And another girl to take my pain away
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I know you think you’re the queen of the underground
And you can Send me dead flowers every morning
Send me dead flowers by the mail
Send me dead flowers to my wedding
And I won’t forget to put roses on your grave
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I know you think you’re the queen of the underground
And you can send me dead flowers every morning
Send me dead flowers by the US mail
Say it with dead flowers in my wedding
And I won’t forget to put roses on your grave
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That would be a fun little device.
Investing in a few might be a good idea.LOL!
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