Dan from MI
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-sugarmann/court-to-dc-handguns-fo_b_43045.html
This morning the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, in the case of Parker, et al v. the District of Columbia, overturned the District of Columbia's handgun ban on Second Amendment grounds. Under the decision, which is contrary to the overwhelming weight of legal authority, District residents would now be allowed to keep handguns in their homes.
Since its enactment, overturning the DC handgun ban has been the Holy Grail for the National Rifle Association and its supporters. Pending appeal, it looks like they may have finally achieved their goal. And if the case, which concludes that "the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms," is heard on appeal by the U.S. Supreme Court, it has the potential to lay the groundwork for literally every local, state, and federal gun law in America to be challenged: from the federal ban on gun possession by felons to the ban on the manufacture of new, fully automatic machine guns.
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While today's decision is a dream come true for America's gun lobby and gunmakers, it may mark the beginning of a long, national nightmare from which we will never recover as a nation.
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Hey Josh...walk it off, son.
This morning the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, in the case of Parker, et al v. the District of Columbia, overturned the District of Columbia's handgun ban on Second Amendment grounds. Under the decision, which is contrary to the overwhelming weight of legal authority, District residents would now be allowed to keep handguns in their homes.
Since its enactment, overturning the DC handgun ban has been the Holy Grail for the National Rifle Association and its supporters. Pending appeal, it looks like they may have finally achieved their goal. And if the case, which concludes that "the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms," is heard on appeal by the U.S. Supreme Court, it has the potential to lay the groundwork for literally every local, state, and federal gun law in America to be challenged: from the federal ban on gun possession by felons to the ban on the manufacture of new, fully automatic machine guns.
(Snip)
While today's decision is a dream come true for America's gun lobby and gunmakers, it may mark the beginning of a long, national nightmare from which we will never recover as a nation.
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Hey Josh...walk it off, son.
