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Washington DC gun ban is unconstitutional

BJ | June 26, 2008 12:57 pm

The Supreme Court handed down the 5-4 ruling that the Washington DC gun ban is unconstitutional. It also affirms the individual right to keep and bear arms. Read the decision here.

It’s all over everything so I’ll refrain from posting a hundred links to reason, Andrew Sullivan’s blog, Cato, and everywhere else. I need to go check and see what the kossacks think about it.

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Spencer Brown wrote a comment on June 30, 2008

I was very impressed with how well the justice’s held to a middle line. I was hoping to go out and get a VF-19 as an extension of the new liberalized gun laws, but I guess I will have to wait. (until they are invented at the very least)

BJ wrote a comment on July 1, 2008

During oral arguments, everyone shied from trying to make that connection. Scalia was pretty aggressive with questioning that line about firearms in common use, and questioning the 1986 ban, but it seemed rhetorical rather than a substantive line of support for a repeal to the machine gun ban. He was trying to get them to differentiate between the two rather than pushing for an argument in that direction.

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