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SUPREME COURT DECLINES TO REVIEW EMERSON!

offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
edited June 2002 in General Discussion
From the NRA-ILA, the following good news:


SUPREME COURT
DECLINES TO HEAR EMERSON CASE

On Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States declined without comment to hear U.S. v. Emerson. And while the decision is bad news for the defendant, the non-ruling in the Emerson case does mean that the 5th Circuit Court's finding that the Second Amendment protects an individual right will stand. Furthermore, when the Bush Department of Justice (DOJ) submitted its Emerson briefs, it included statements that our Right to Keep and Bear Arms is clearly an individual right protected by the Constitution, which can also be used in legal arguments against unconstitutional gun control laws. As NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris Cox explained to The New York Times, NRA was not concerned with the Supreme Court's lack of decisive action, as "our client is the Second Amendment." Cox went on to say, "The Second Amendment won" when the Bush Administration made clear it supports the correct view that the right to arms is an individual, protected right.






- Life NRA Member
"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878

Comments

  • Evil ATFEvil ATF Member Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yes, for individuals to bear arms that the government deems acceptable.

    I don't see them tripping over themselves to roll back any of the blatantly unconstitutional legislation that has been pushed through since '34...

    Stand And Be Counted
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