-- the Solicitor General requested the Supreme Court to turn down the appeal.
If the government keeps control over our "right" to keep and bear arms, that right, then, becomes degraded to but a privilege.
It was the intent of the Founding Fathers that the American people shall have the unequivocal right to keep and bear arms and that government "shall not" interfere with that right.
Thus, we see that the Bush administration IS attempting to 'interfere', by urging the USSC to ignore the Emerson appeal.
Incredibly, many here at FR are swallowing this 'line', as a great stand on principle. -- It is not. -- It is a political ploy, a call for 'business as usual'. - With a sugar tit coating of platitudes for us gun nuts.
Power and the ability to lose that power due to an armed, aroused, citizenry has more bearing on your average politician than any rights involved.
The street gangs have helped create the conditions for gun control in the cities, but it is the personal responsibility for individuals to protect themselves instead of leaving that duty to law enforcement.