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To: freepatriot32
I don't understand how local and state jurisdictions can go farther than the fedgov, in regulation of guns. It is a right in the constitution
24 posted on 01/26/2003 1:06:58 PM PST by jeremiah (Sunshine scares all of them, for they all are cockaroaches)
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To: jeremiah
"I don't understand how local and state jurisdictions can go farther than the fedgov, in regulation of guns. It is a right in the constitution."


Simple concept that far to many cannot understand.

Many conservatives here at FR cannot, or will not, acknowledge this truth because to do so their own single issue hoped-for 'regulations', [whereby they WANT states to override constitutional safeguards], could be compared to gun control.

Connecting the War on Guns & Drugs [my title]
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26 posted on 01/26/2003 1:26:44 PM PST by tpaine
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To: jeremiah
I don't understand how local and state jurisdictions can go farther than the fedgov, in regulation of guns. It is a right in the constitution.

It's very simple:

... the Second Amendment does not confer an individual right to own or possess arms ...
[Federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Silveira v. Lockyer (2002)]

Until the SCOTUS slaps down the Ninth yet again, and disposes of this ridiculous "collective right of the states to form militias" idiocy regarding the Second Amendment, or until we pass this amendment, ordinary law-abiding California citizens have no right to own firearms.

34 posted on 01/26/2003 3:54:55 PM PST by mvpel
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