QFT. All the “common usage”, “so-in-so vs. so-in-so” cases, SC rulings are just semantics. Commies are going to Commie irregardless of what the SC says. Commie states have laws that are blatant violations of the 2A and get away with it. Maybe I’m just a pessimist but nothing I have seen from our government in the last decade gives me confidence that they will do the Constitutionally right thing. I read a post somewhere that said “ the greatest conspiracy theory of all is the notion that your government cares about you”. I need to add that to my sig line.
I think Heller was important. I don’t think it restored all constitutional freedom to everyone across the land, but it did put in place a significant roadblock to restrict rights.
To me Heller is the foundation of them not being able to just outlaw guns. At the very least, I’ll have pump shotgun and a revolver in my house. Now we are building on that.
The question I have is that these people won’t give up, every law that gets passed will just be followed by another slightly less illegal law.
How do we get to the point where states like NY and CA aren’t allowed to pass new gun laws with out some pre-clearance like the southern states had for voting? They have had a long history of violating people’s rights, and they use our dimes to pay for the lawsuits to take away our rights.
Same way they do it, keep hammering back. Honestly if you told me the gains we would make with CCW and open carry way back in the 90s, I’d have laughed at you. Losing the NRA as a viable front line of defense really hurt us, we need something like that.
The Republicans on the committee who spoke at the hearing — Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa; Sen. John Cornyn and Sen. Ted Cruz, both of Texas, and Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee — saw absolutely no reason to put any curbs on the sale of assault weapons.