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To: fzx12345
Wiggle room:

2. Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose: For example, concealed weapons prohibitions have been upheld under the Amendment or state analogues. The Court’s opinion should not be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms. Miller’s holding that the sorts of weapons protected are those “in common use at the time” finds support in the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons. Pp. 54–56.

Worrysome. But about what we expected. Notable that they are silent on OPEN carry...

426 posted on 06/26/2008 7:33:53 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: Dead Corpse

That is probably the only way Kennedy would be part of it. Better that than the alternative, for now.


526 posted on 06/26/2008 7:49:22 AM PDT by Double Tap
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To: Dead Corpse
Worrysome. But about what we expected. Notable that they are silent on OPEN carry...

Howdy DC,

If you read the opinion I can clearly see that one (open carry) or the other (concealed) must be allowed. The older court cases cited also allude to that fact.

Good news finally!

703 posted on 06/26/2008 8:38:20 AM PDT by beltfed308 (Heller: The defining moment of our Republic)
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To: Dead Corpse
2. Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose: For example, concealed weapons prohibitions have been upheld under the Amendment or state analogues. The Court’s opinion should not be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms. Miller’s holding that the sorts of weapons protected are those “in common use at the time” finds support in the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons. Pp. 54–56.

Worrysome. But about what we expected. Notable that they are silent on OPEN carry...

This is dicta ...

797 posted on 06/26/2008 9:49:34 AM PDT by Mechanicos
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To: Dead Corpse
Worrysome. But about what we expected. Notable that they are silent on OPEN carry...

They probably had to compromise to some degree to get Kennedy on board to make it a majority decision. It's a victory for now, and we're better than we were

804 posted on 06/26/2008 9:57:48 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell)
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