DC v. Heller Decision

[ellis4538]

Just heard from CH.  He is pleased and shooting his .50 cal.  (Thunderstorm just passed thru!!!!!)

Richard

[Michael Bane]

I was going to the range to shoot my .50 today, but I got...distracted...

LOL!

mb

[kmitch200]

I loved the last part of the video that Marshal posted. The Brady Bunch put on their happy face. I give them credit.

It's got to be hard to find something to be happy about, when 5 of the Supremes just kicked you sqarely in the nuts.

[Hazcat]

As you hear on that last clip the Brady Bunch is not going to back off.  It will now be a fight as to what is "reasonable".  At least one other thing we have in this decision is "for self defense", that is a large reason.

[Hazcat]

MB,

On the radio pod cast with Jim Shepard he keeps saying it was decided under the 'strictest scrutiny'.  Where is he getting that from?

[Sponsor]

[Marshal Halloway]

What's Next for Gun Control?

Time Magazine:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1818325,00.html

[Marshal Halloway]

What's next after Supreme Court's gun decision?
By Michael Doyle | McClatchy Newspapers
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/201/story/42356.html

[twyacht]

DC will never issue a CCW permit, and regulate gun the gun laws to the point of madness. It will be worse than NJ, Mass. CA. They will not recognize any reciprocity from any state, and will make it dangerous to even drive across DC to Va with a gun in the car to go to the range.  The future scenario is;

If you get pulled over in DC with a burned out tail light, and you disclose to the LEO that you have firearms in the trunk or the back. Your still going to to have 4 or 5 more officers show up, take em', take you, impound your car, and release you 48 hours later....

Than you begin to PAY your way out of this BS.

The politicians will make it more dangerous to take the guns out of your home than defend yourself in public, because there will never be a concealed carry law passed in DC.

The ruling is a good thing, but the Dems can "regulate" it to a point almost as bad as a ban.

[Ron J]

Note what Scalia said in his opinion about trigger locks. 


3. The handgun ban and the trigger-lock requirement (as applied to
self-defense) violate the Second Amendment. The District’s total ban
on handgun possession in the home amounts to a prohibition on an
entire class of “arms” that Americans overwhelmingly choose for the
lawful purpose of self-defense. Under any of the standards of scrutiny
the Court has applied to enumerated constitutional rights, this
Cite as: 554 U. S. ____ (2008) 3
Syllabus
prohibition—in the place where the importance of the lawful defense
of self, family, and property is most acute—would fail constitutional
muster. Similarly, the requirement that any lawful firearm in the
home be disassembled or bound by a trigger lock makes it impossible
for citizens to use arms for the core lawful purpose of self-defense and
is hence unconstitutional. Because Heller conceded at oral argument
that the D. C. licensing law is permissible if it is not enforced arbitrarily
and capriciously, the Court assumes that a license will satisfy
his prayer for relief and does not address the licensing requirement.
Assuming he is not disqualified from exercising Second Amendment
rights, the District must permit Heller to register his handgun and
must issue him a license to carry it in the home. Pp. 56–64.
478 F. 3d 370, affirmed.
SCALIA, J.

Point being ... will any gun manufacturers take their internal locks off? 

[twyacht]

Similarly, the requirement that any lawful firearm in the
home be disassembled or bound by a trigger lock makes it impossible
for citizens to use arms for the core lawful purpose of self-defense and
is hence unconstitutional.

Knock, Knock:
Who's there?

Home invader...
One moment please I have to get my trigger lock key,,,, Oh its in the lockbox,,,,,
Knock, Knock!!!

Just a second while I find the key to the other lock box for the ammo and magazines.

BANG! Homeowner dead,.. Gun taken. Criminal could care less,......

Thank you Justice Scalia for being "a real world" person and not living in the "Brady Mentality Fog"