Jamie Kelly | June 9, 2008, 4:43pm | #
AP News Alert
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld the broad ban on gun ownership in the nation's capital, delivering a blow to Second Amendment advocates in a decision that will have widespread ramifications on gun policy nationwide.
The justices' 6-3 ruling lets stand Washington D.C.'s municipal ban on most guns, laws passed in the 1970s in the wake of spiraling violence.
In the majority opinion, the court said even a strict reading of the Second Amendment to the Constitution does not guarantee an individual's right to possess a firearm.
Speaking for the majority, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote: "This story was totally made up by Jamie Kelly, who hopes the regular readers of Reason's Hit & Run [poo] themselves a little bit. [screw] it, let's go get a beer.
AP News Alert
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld the broad ban on gun ownership in the nation's capital, delivering a blow to Second Amendment advocates in a decision that will have widespread ramifications on gun policy nationwide.
The justices' 6-3 ruling lets stand Washington D.C.'s municipal ban on most guns, laws passed in the 1970s in the wake of spiraling violence.
In the majority opinion, the court said even a strict reading of the Second Amendment to the Constitution does not guarantee an individual's right to possess a firearm.
Speaking for the majority, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote: "This story was totally made up by Jamie Kelly, who hopes the regular readers of Reason's Hit & Run [poo] themselves a little bit. [screw] it, let's go get a beer.
