[FreedomOfExpression]

The difficulty that the Maloney case could encounter as the best vehicle for review of the issue, however, would arise if the Senate confirmed Judge Sotomayor’s nomination for a seat on the Supreme Court.
Because she was on the appeals court panel that decided that very case, she presumably would not feel free to participate in the case at the Court.

That's a REALLY BIG presumption.

[neverdem]

Sotospecial!

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[SunkenCiv]

A Port Washington, N.Y., lawyer and martial arts enthusiast asked the Supreme Court on Friday to use his case to expand the coverage of the Second Amendment's "right to keep and bear arms" so that it applies to restrict or bar state and local laws, as well as those at the federal level.

Thanks neverdem.

[El Gato]

That is a weapon often used in martial arts training, but also in increasing use as a police weapon to subdue and control suspects. James Maloney wants the right to have the weapon in his home for self-defense, just as others might do with a handgun. (The chuka weapon consists of two lengths of wood or other rigid material joined by a short strand of rope.)

It's said that the thing was actually a farm implement, or derived from one anyway. But it may have been some other sort of ordinary tool. One theory is it is a combination of a bridle and grain flail. It's use as a weapon is said to be the result of weapons restrictions put in place on Okinawa by the Japanese in the 17th century.