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It’s on: USSC decides to hear DC gun case

Posted by: Sister Toldjah on November 20, 2007 at 2:53 pm

Lyle Denniston at the SCOTUSBlog reports:

After a hiatus of 68 years, the Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to rule on the meaning of the Second Amendment — the hotly contested part of the Constitution that guarantees “a right to keep and bear arms.” Not since 1939 has the Court heard a case directly testing the Amendment’s scope — and there is a debate about whether it actually decided anything in that earlier ruling. In a sense, the Court may well be writing on a clean slate if, in the end, it decides the ultimate question: does the Second Amendment guarantee an individual right to have a gun for private use, or does it only guarantee a collective right to have guns in an organized military force such as a state National Guard unit?

The city of Washington’s appeal (District of Columbia v. Heller, 07-290) is expected to be heard in March — slightly more than a year after the D.C. Circuit Court ruled that the right is a personal one, at least to have a gun for self-defense in one’s own home. (The Court took no action on Tuesday on a conditional cross-petition, Parker, et al., v. District of Columbia, 07-335, an appeal by five District residents seeking to join in the case. The absence of any action may mean that the Court has decided not to hear that case. If that is so, it will be indicated in an order next Monday. The Court also may simply be holding the case until it decides the Heller case.)

Here’s a good article about the ineffectiveness of the DC handgun ban.

Dave Kopel posts some background on the history of handgun bans in general.

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4 Responses to “It’s on: USSC decides to hear DC gun case”

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  1. PCD says:
    November 20, 2007 at 2:56 pm

    Gun bans only tells the criminals that unarmed, defenseless victims are in the area. Which enboldens them to commit more and more violent crimes. Only Liberal Democrats can’t figure this out.

  2. Zach says:
    November 20, 2007 at 6:04 pm

    Wow! This is going to be one of the biggest Supreme Court Cases decisions this generation.

  3. forest hunter says:
    November 20, 2007 at 7:12 pm

    Just think Zach, it only took them 68 years to figure out what the scourge of America knew overnight……but enough about the dhimmicrats and their fellow travelers.

    If one needed more evidentiary reasons based on historical facts, that most government *run* anything is minimally a recipe for disaster and why it should have as close to zero oversight as possible in most things, surely this should be viewed as one. Unless of course the omniscient powers that be in the media, have a role to play and act as they have…….and act they do.

  4. Tom TB says:
    November 21, 2007 at 9:17 am

    The timing of this Supreme Court hearing couldn’t be better in this election cycle. We can ask every candidate whether they believe keeping firearms in one’s own home is an individual right protected by the Constitution, or a privilege handed out by those in power, to be rescinded at any time. It will be fun to watch them dance!