Discussion for article #223966
Some gun sanity from the High Court, who in fairness we’re never as expansive in Heller as the gun lobby would have us believe.
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Huge ruling. As Scalia said, the 2nd Amendment allows for reasonable restrictions. And gun running is not a reasonable practice. I hope this gunsuck does some serious time for his crime.
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How will the NRA spin this as a “win?” Should be interesting to watch
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So this guy now has a felony conviction, and no longer has the “right to buy, possess, transfer, shoot, fondle, etc. guns”, Right?
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And around the nation today, law enforcement officers cringed and made sure not to forget their body armor for fear that a patriot might exercise some 2nd Amendment remedies against them. USA!
Phwew – We, the public, dodged that bullet so to speak…
Wonder which Supreme voted with the liberal Justices as it was probably another one of those 5-4 decisions I would bet. Don’t know why the article couldn’t just have easily included that information.
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It’s actually a pretty narrow ruling. It asks right on the form of you’re buying the gun “on behalf of” someone else. There are still gaping loopholes.
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Thanks to the feds fear of an NRA backlash, prosecutors held off going after straw purchasers such as those in Fast and Furious. Maybe now this decision will give them enough to stand up to the NRA.
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Gee, I wonder if Wayne’s wearing his Depends today…
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What? I have to get out of my La-Z-Boy and buy a gun in person?
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I’m wondering how this transfer ever came to light.
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Scalia dissents, as he feels that it wasn’t a material falsification of the application to state that you’re buying the gun for yourself, when you know all along that you’re buying if for someone else. I wonder if it would be “material” if the gun had been used to kill a LEO? Would that change his mind?
This dissent is a waste of judicial resources…
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That’s not the 'Murica I want to live in!
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Hey Tony!
NRA’s on line 1
Koch boys on line 2.
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Pat:
“…never as expansive in Heller as the gun lobby would have us believe.”
Agree. The gun nuts need to read the decision in its entirety. It leaves the door wide open for reasonable gun laws. Heller merely affirmed a broad right to own a gun for home protection. That’s all.
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Pretty damn hilarious.
Read the whole decision?
Don’t forget: you’re talking about a group of people who completely ignore the first half of the Second Amendment. It’s even listed that way at NRA’s headquarters: the words “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State” are replaced by an ellipsis.
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Well, I guess they realize they themselves might get targeted by the nut jobs.