Posted on 11/30/2007 1:01:54 PM PST by neverdem
www.gunowners.org/a112707.htm
Nov 2007
By now, you have probably heard the news which was delivered prior to Thanksgiving that the U.S. Supreme Court will be taking up the DC gun ban case.
Gun Owners of America's foundation (GOF) will be submitting an amicus brief before the Supreme Court in support of the lower court's decision that the Second Amendment protects an individual right.
The case, D.C. v. Heller, resulted in nullification of the gun ban in the District of Columbia. Judge Laurence Silberman wrote the majority opinion for the DC Court of Appeals which decided that the DC law violated the individual right to keep and bear arms protected by the Second Amendment.
Silberman's opinion was based on an extensive review of the historical record which makes it clear that the militia was intended to be a mandatory body composed of all military-aged males who were required to own their own military weapons. He found that the "state" referred to in the Second Amendment is a reference to society, not a political entity.
The city of Washington, DC is contesting the appellate court's decision in an attempt to preserve its draconian gun ban.
But the Gun Owners Foundation has commissioned one of the nation's top experts in constitutional law. The GOF brief will highlight recent legal scholarship which argues that the Second Amendment right to bear arms is as much an individual right as the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of...
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The supreme court banned guns??
Please ask the Admin. Mod to revise your headline.
The mischaracterization only serves to perpetuate the media stereotype of gun owners & advocates.
The USSC has agreed to hear a case regarding a W.D.C. law restricting private gun ownership.
The USSC has NOT banned guns.
Furthermore, letter writing campaigns will have NO EFFECT on any USSC decision.
It might be cathardic to write letters to the editor, since the subject is up for discussion, but it won’t influence the upcoming USSC ruling.
It's not my headline. It's GOA's. We are told to use the original headline.
Furthermore, letter writing campaigns will have NO EFFECT on any USSC decision.
The request for letters pertained to what GOA calls the Veterans Disarmament Act, HR 2640, which was passed without a recorded vote.
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Thank you!
I will provide the same comments directly to GOA.
The GOA is weighing in only after the Second Amendment Sisters? Don’t they do anything at all?
The GOA has a terrible track record. They haven’t done a single thing since I have been on FR. Can’t they rent a billboard or something asking the Supreme Court what part of “Shall Not Infringe” don’t they understand?
Exactly
Reagan appointee. Need more like him.
The letter writing campaign they indicate is not about the USSC case, but rather about the NICS improvement act, and the letters are requested to be sent to one's CongressCritter. That probably doesn't do a lot of good either, but it couldn't hurt and might help. :)
My real objection is that pro-2nd Amendment organiztions use inaccurate and misleading headlines to get people excited.
It makes all gun owners look stupid.
I haven't seen that the NRA has weighed in on the Heller, nee Parker, case yet either. I'm sure they will in good time. I wonder who will prepare their brief. They have much deeper pockets than GOA, SAF/CCRKBA etc, as should be able to afford *the best*.
I'd like to see several state associations weigh in as well...but I wouldn't want to overburden the court either, since most of them would be saying pretty much the same thing.
Then you haven't been paying attention. They filed at the very beginning.
They haven't yet filed a brief at the Supreme Court level, but they, like GOA, have announced that they will do so.
They did file an amicus brief> at the circuit court level when the case was called "Parker" , perhaps that is what you are thinking of.
But I had forgotten that announcement, and only checked to see if they had filed before the SC.
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