Posted on 10/10/2009 7:23:41 PM PDT by neverdem
As if they ever were! That was my point. The cases say one thing, but courts make up a fabricated version to obtain a desired outcome.
See too, Scalia and the majority in the Heller case, deliberately misreading US v. Miller and what it says about the 1934 NFA.
Once the Feds are the entrenched authority on RKBA, the door is open for federal registration, and further limitations on type and place. Not that the state of IL is "a gun owners friend," but the feds are hostile to the 2nd amendment too. The federal government's 2nd amendment jurisprudence is utterly corrupt.
“Binding precedent” is judicial shorthand for “intellectual dishonesty and laziness”.
The Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land. Nothing gives judicial precedence any authority whatsoever, except that arbitrary and capricious decisions by a court--even when otherwise legitimate--could fall afoul of "due process" and "equal protection". A court which decides a particular case one way may feel bound to decide similar cases similarly, but only in cases where there would be no other compelling authority for guidance.
That "compelling authority" may look a bit like this pretty soon...
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