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Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: Fjolnirsson on February 22, 2010, 05:46:48 PM
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/20/AR2010022003376.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/20/AR2010022003376.html)
As one of the plaintiffs who sued the District for the right to keep handguns in the home, Palmer has one notch on his belt. Now he's suing the city again, this time for the right to carry firearms in public.
I wish him and his co-plaintiffs the best of luck. I have to admit, the idea of putting this before the Supreme court makes me as nervous as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs. This could be for all the chips...IF the Supremes decide we have no right to carry in public, what happens to all the gains we have made with concealed carry in the last 20 years?
On the other hand, Alan Gura has the case, which is encouraging.
Here's a link to another POST article about the case...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/07/AR2009080702997.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/07/AR2009080702997.html)
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SAF also helping carry the weight.
Strangely... no NRA present.
I'm sure they'll step in right before it makes it to SCOTUS and muscle their way in to hog the acclaim, though.
Go Gura! Go SAF!
FU, NRA!
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No NRA help. Surely you jest. But wait. Folks will come along and remind us that the NRA is an international Org and busy fighting the UN, and they will give long lists of the NRA's victories.
But I agree with you. The NRA will wait until the last minute, butt in
and use it as a fund drive.
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SAF also helping carry the weight.
Strangely... no NRA present.
I'm sure they'll step in right before it makes it to SCOTUS and muscle their way in to hog the acclaim, though.
Go Gura! Go SAF!
FU, NRA!
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[popcorn]
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Heller specifically talked about carry outside the home, although it wasn't the subject of the case so a ruling on that aspect was not made. The findings pretty much say some form of public carry must be provided for either open or concealed if not both.
There's no real downside to this, states can't be more restrictive than the Feds, the 48 states that are currently better can stay status quo or improve, the two without carry will be SOL.
Note also that overly restrictive discretionary laws are vulnerable to equal protection charges, as California's is currently being attacked, and will be subject tot eh dicta in Heller after teh expected win on Mcdonald. So even the "bad" carry states won't be getting worse, if strict scrutiny is applied to the Second then discretionary regimes are gone based on the extant evidence.
Here's hoping NRA grows up enough to admit to being a supporter rather than a lead. Doing so would earn them a lot of goodwill from the members int eh know and wouldn't cost them a dime in donations. But no, they have to pretend they are always out front.
Whiny little girls the lot of 'em.