Good Times
04-20-2009, 02:15 PM
What does this all mean?
* The 2nd Amendment applies to all states, counties and cities in the 9th Circuit including California.
You're probably wondering wait a sec didn't it always? Not quite. The 1st and 2nd Amendments didn't apply. Go figure. But that changed today :)
Source: Incorporation - Bill of Rights (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_(Bill_of_Rights))
* Most all anti-gun bill right now faces constitutional agruments!
We now have some pretty heavy ammo against these bills so it'll be pretty sweet moving forward.
We therefore conclude that the right to keep and bear arms is “deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition.” Colonial revolutionaries, the Founders, and a host of commentators and lawmakers living during the first one hundred years of the Republic all insisted on the fundamental nature of the right. It has long been regarded as the “true palladium of liberty.” Colonists relied on it to assert and to win their independence, and the victorious Union sought to prevent a recalcitrant South from abridging it less than a century later. The crucial role this deeply rooted right has played in our birth and history compels us to recognize that it is indeed fundamental, that it is necessary to the Anglo-American conception of ordered liberty that we have inherited.17 We are therefore persuaded that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates the Second Amendment and applies it against the states and local governments.
Document: Download me! (http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2009/04/20/0715763.pdf)
* The 2nd Amendment applies to all states, counties and cities in the 9th Circuit including California.
You're probably wondering wait a sec didn't it always? Not quite. The 1st and 2nd Amendments didn't apply. Go figure. But that changed today :)
Source: Incorporation - Bill of Rights (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_(Bill_of_Rights))
* Most all anti-gun bill right now faces constitutional agruments!
We now have some pretty heavy ammo against these bills so it'll be pretty sweet moving forward.
We therefore conclude that the right to keep and bear arms is “deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition.” Colonial revolutionaries, the Founders, and a host of commentators and lawmakers living during the first one hundred years of the Republic all insisted on the fundamental nature of the right. It has long been regarded as the “true palladium of liberty.” Colonists relied on it to assert and to win their independence, and the victorious Union sought to prevent a recalcitrant South from abridging it less than a century later. The crucial role this deeply rooted right has played in our birth and history compels us to recognize that it is indeed fundamental, that it is necessary to the Anglo-American conception of ordered liberty that we have inherited.17 We are therefore persuaded that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates the Second Amendment and applies it against the states and local governments.
Document: Download me! (http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2009/04/20/0715763.pdf)