Posted on 01/12/2008 8:40:25 AM PST by walkerk
The key word here is ‘unlicensed’...right now many large cities and counties want to keep the right to force anyone who purchases or owns a handgun to apply for a right to carry license..
I think in the D.C. it is totally illegal to own a handgun..in New York City there are only about 10,000 licenses issued out of a total city population of around 8 million..Some cities in Colorado were also very restrictive about issuing handgun licenses and charged an exorbitant fee for a gun license...This is a clear infringement on the spirit of the 2nd Amendment which allows private citizens to own guns, namely that it gives citizens the right to bear arms and the right of States to raise militias..
I think the S.C. will rule in favor of the armed guard- the Plaintiff in the case and will allow him to keep his weapon at his home, thereby allowing citizens to own and keep arms. Whether it rules that the guns must be licensed is another matter...The Second Amendment says nothing about whether the gun must be licensed, and if the Court takes a strict interpretation of the 2nd Amendment, then it should rule that the guns do not have to be licensed.
That said, there is a Federal Law- upheld by the SC- that says the government cannot and must not keep a database of any kind,of purchasers for more than 30 days after sale of a gun through a registered dealer..private sales of guns are off the record, of course..Some States have violated this- Florida was one- and they were ordered to destroy their database..Soo—that eliminates the need to even ‘register’ a gun with a municipality...
This will be a very interesting ruling by the S.C.
BTW - A big thank you goes out to Senator’s McCain and Feingold for their wonderful legislation and the liberal Jurists on the Supreme Court for eviscerating the First Amendment.
“Do you think you will be able to maintain that position and advance in your career in public service?”
I’m not sure, but you’ve got me thinking about how Thomas More might’ve answered it. But I think you’ve mistaken me for a career bureaucrat, which I am not.
If the Supreme Court is supposed to be above politics why do so many groups openly try to influence it’s decisions through political means?
No way they can do that under the 14th Amendment.
The collusion of UN, BATF, Governors, Mayors and the various LEO front groups like FOP and the Law Enforcement Steering Committee and DA’s in instituting a gun free Utopia...hearkens to 1968.
What's the alternative? Surely you want prosecutors. Otherwise, there is no way to enforce the law. And we can't take away their discretion.
I suppose you could have them draw names out of a hat to prosecute that day, but other than a system that forces them to prosecute someone and not another, I don't see how you can take their judgment out of the equation.
I agree with you. They should be tracked so we can boot the traitors out of office.
The First Traitor has just sold gun owners down the river.
That man has got to go. We can't survive another year of him.
They should also better question what these people's oaths to protect and defend our constitutions means to them as individuals and what their intentions are. Because, once they're in office, it's Katie bar the damned door as far as some of these runaway prosecutors and runaway Grand Juries inspired by these rabid prosecutors are concerned.
Look what that jerk prosecutor did to Tom Delay down there in your fair state!!! Look what jerks like Eliot Spitzer have done in NY state!!! Not to mention Niphong...
Well, thanks to the "only two terms as President" amendment, he WILL go (thank God for the wisdom of the voters in passing THAT amendment after FDR). But we'll also just have to live with him until his successor is sworn in, because Pelosi, et al, won't be able to impeach him.
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