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on Friday, March 09, 2007 2:01:36 PM
This story is breaking, or at least it broke about an hour and a half ago. The DC Circuit Court Of Appeals struck down the DC gun ban as unconstitutional. (Hat-Tip: Professor Glenn Reynolds, K-Lo @ The Corner, and The Volokh Conspiracy. Neither of us have yet to read it (I am in the process of shooting Thomas all the information I have found through e-mail, and I am printing sp said information now) but we will have some thoughts on this. More than likely, those will come tomorrow or Sunday. But this is a win for Second Amendment advocates, and it now puts an issue on the table for the presidential candidates.
For the record, I agree with Professor Reynolds on this:
Perhaps the Democrats would be wise to take the issue off the table politically by passing some sort of federal legislation guaranteeing American citizens the right to own guns.
Heh. Indeed. It is their side that is most hostile to the notion that the average everyday citizen does definitively have the right own firearms.
Marcie