Supremes Appear to Lean Toward an Individual RKBA: When Supreme Court
Justice Anthony Kennedy is cast as the swing vote in a case before the
Court, he often waits until late in the oral argument to tip his hand.
But as the Court considered the landmark Second Amendment case D.C. v.
Heller on Tuesday, Kennedy was quick to lay bare his view on the scope
of the right to bear arms contained in the amendment. The first part, he
said, was meant to reaffirm "the existence and the importance" of the
treatment of state militias contained in the Constitution itself. The
second part, Kennedy asserted, means that "in addition" there is a right
to bear arms, which he later declared was a "general right."
..Kennedy's comments appeared to spell trouble for efforts by the
District of Columbia to revive its strict handgun ban, although lawyers
for both the Bush Administration and gun-rights advocates acknowledged
that some lesser regulation of the right would be acceptable. Counting
Kennedy, it appeared that five or more justices were ready to recognize
some form of an individual right to keep and bear arms that is only
loosely tethered, if at all, to the functioning of militias. What kind
of regulation of that individual right will be allowed by those justices
is uncertain...
http://www.law.com/jsp/dc/PubArticleDC.jsp?id=1205844692650
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Stephen P. Wenger, KE7QBY
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
