[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

"a 1987 D.C. Court of Appeals decision in Sandidge v. United States upholding the D.C. gun ban, reasoning that "the right to keep and bear arms is not a right conferred upon the people by the federal Constitution." Rather, that the Constitution confers "a collective right" of the states to bear arms. "

What utter nonsense. This must be overturned.
I fear Ashcroft, who sounded so good before he got the job, will do his best to stifle this challenge.

[William Tell]

the gillman@blacklagoon.com said: "I fear Ashcroft, who sounded so good before he got the job, will do his best to stifle this challenge. "

Ashcroft has done a great service by moving the government position so far in favor of individual rights. When the Supreme Court grapples with defining the limits, they will be faced with the same type of problems that caused Roe v. Wade. If the government must draw a line in a situation of almost infinite gradations, then the line should be drawn at the limit which preserves freedom, however unpopular and disgusting some may view the exercise of that freedom.