Supreme Court upholds CA county gun-show ban

[Telperion]

Looks like the Court is ducking another 2A case, denying cert in Nordyke v. King:

SAN FRANCISCO – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let stand a lower court's ruling that upheld a local California ordinance banning weapons bazaars on government property such as fairgrounds.

The justices declined to review an unsuccessful challenge to a 1999 Alameda County ordinance banning gun shows on its property. A lower court had sustained the ordinance on grounds that gun enthusiasts had neither a First Amendment nor Second Amendment right to possess weapons for sale on county property.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20041004-1428-ca-gunshowsban.html

"weapons bazaars"?

 

[Standing Wolf]

Looks like the Court is ducking another 2A case...

Seems to me the court just ruled against the Second Amendment civil rights of Americans.

 

[Archie]

Don't panic yet.

The Supreme Court usually does not take up appeals from Circuit Courts unless two different Circuits have ruled in conflict with each other. So when we get a similar case from the Fourth (for instance) Circuit ruling that counties cannot enact and enforce such laws, SCOTUS will accept an appeal and decide for all circuits.

I wish they would have taken the case and overturned the Reversable Ninth, but this is normal proceedure.

Please notice, the ordinance passed in the counties in PDSR Calif do not prohibit Gun Shows; just those on 'county property'. So the gun show organizers are going to have to start looking for private venues. I used to go gun shows at the Shriner's auditorium all the time.

Time to adapt.

And yes, SCOTUS has ducked a number of Second Amendment cases. Let's get GW re-elected and pack the SCOTUS with conservatives!

 

[Standing Wolf]

Let's get GW re-elected and pack the SCOTUS with conservatives!

Does that packing happen before or after the Republicans roll over and play dead while representatives of the Democratic (sic) party threaten to start to commence to begin to think about the possibility of expressing their unhappiness? Enquiring minds want to know.