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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I think the legal concept that makes gun registration unconstitutional is "prior restraint."

Ooh, I like that...for example, you can't tell the press, "You can't publish that, it's slanderous." Press has the right (limited in very few cases, like publishing the position of ships during wartime, for obvious reasons) to publish what it wants, and be liable for abuse of that right. Requiring gun owners to qualify and register is a restraint on the right to own a weapon. We don't make the press run their articles through a censor before publication, and we should not make gun owners put their names on a database "just in case" they might misuse a gun.

How am I doin' here?

67 posted on 10/22/2002 7:32:51 PM PDT by Henrietta
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To: Henrietta
How am I doin' here?

Sounds dead-on to me. Good job.

78 posted on 10/23/2002 5:38:46 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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