Posted on 01/10/2006 3:08:26 PM PST by Dan from Michigan
Supreme Court Nominee Samuel Alito’s Views Could Imperil Most Federal Gun, Ammo, and Explosives Laws, New Violence Policy Center Backgrounder Shows Washington, DC--The Violence Policy Center (VPC) today released a backgrounder on Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito.
Key aspects of the document include:
Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito voted to strike down the 1986 federal machine gun ban in the case U.S. v. Rybar, [103 F.3d 273 (3d Cir. 1996)]. Judge Alito was the lone dissenter in the decision upholding the conviction of a gun dealer who sold illegal machine guns at a Pennsylvania gun show.
Application of Judge Alito’s unusual and extremely restrictive view of Congressional regulatory power could imperil virtually every federal law that currently regulates firearms, ammunition, and explosives.
Judge Alito’s opposition to the machine gun ban mirrors that of the National Rifle Association. In 1986, following passage of the ban, then-NRA Institute for Legislative Action Executive Director, now NRA Executive Vice President, Wayne LaPierre stated, “Repealing the machine gun amendment...will be a high priority,” and promised the NRA’s members that the organization would “actively work toward the repeal of the recent machine gun ban and will take all necessary steps to educate the public on the sporting uses and legal ownership of automatic firearms.” The NRA’s efforts at the time failed.
A brief history of machine gun regulation: from the restrictions imposed by the National Firearms Act of 1934 in response to the violence stemming from Prohibition to the banning of the possession and transfer of new machine guns by civilians in 1986 under the Firearms Owners’ Protection Act. The backgrounder concludes, “If Judge Samuel Alito’s views on firearms and public safety, as expressed through his minority opinion in U.S. v. Rybar, became the law of the land, all Americans would be at greater risk from virtually uncontrollable firearms proliferation. The federal government would be almost powerless to keep firearms, ammunition, and other deadly commodities out of the hands of criminals and even terrorists. In a time of increased concern regarding homeland security, such views are not only counterintuitive, but exceedingly dangerous.”
Good!!
This bodes well for Alito. I like him.
Rockin' !!
The liberals are scared s**tless. Gotta love the smell of victory in the morning.
Wow! He's getting better all the time.
The Left would be all for machine guns if they were used in abortions.
Go Sam Go! Run Sam run! Rule Sam Rule!
Chuck Schumer is the most disgraceful self absobed individual in the Senate. Hearings on C-SPAN now.
Can't wait. Now if there would be a way to overturn some of the CA's draconian laws, by finding them federally unconstitutional... Well, I'm sure NRA's looking into it.
Oh, so now they want to get involved in the WOT. It's all politics for these folks, all promoting their communist agendas.
You mean this SOB is going to uphold the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution? I suspected as much!
I feel freer already.
I'm all for fewer, better enforced laws. I'm also happy to see Congress stymied. I'm glad to see these feathers getting ruffled.
Damn. If VPC hates him this much, he must be good!
I'm getting so frustrated! It's ALI.O.TO! That's his name! Can't we at least get his name right?
/sarc
Another tax-exempt organization. I'd love to know where they get their money. You sure can't find out from their website.
You are making my day, Dan in Michigan. What next? Does Alito want to strike down smkoing bans and tobacco and alcohol ad restrictions? Maybe he things the progressive tax is unconstitutional, too.
The federal government would be almost is powerless to keep firearms, ammunition, and other deadly commodities out of the hands of criminals and even terrorists.
Instead these fools want us to be disarmed and in the sights of criminals and terrorists!
That is a complete misrepresentation of the case.
macnine guns for all!
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