A poor precident has been set IMHO. One administration say's yea then IMHO the next can say nea.........a door I really don't want to open.........just paranoia on my part ? I hope so.......
I am as pro second amendment as anyone here but when a politician hand's me a rose I still look for the thorns............
Just my opinion of course, right or wrong mine............... Stay Safe 11B3 !
That's easy.
I'll tell you how this is a "bad thing," and I'm NOT a "Bush-basher" - well, not today anyway.
It goes like this, and the Brady Bunch is secretly dancing with joy:
The Justice Dept. doesn't want the Emerson case or similar ones going to the SCOTUS because they KNOW they'd lose - and then all the 20,000 laws, little and big, that have nibbled away at the Second Amendment for the past 150 years would be declared un-Constitutional!
There'd be no laws against open or concealed carry, no laws against owning a machine gun in Michigan, etc.
About the only laws that might survive would be those against criminals and minors possessing guns.
Or should that have been "minors and other criminals"?
So this decision is the best outcome the Brady Bunch could have hoped for in the Emerson case, which was an especially serious example of a law that simply violates the Second Amendment, and would not have stood up under the scrutiny of scholars like Clarence Thomas.