While there are always some who'll say "What? You didn't repeal NFA '34? You gun-grabbing traitor!", the fact is this is another good step in the right direction. It's sure to get cited in Chicago, for starters, and as Dave Hardy points out:
This means plaintiffs, the good guys, are the ones who can petition the Supreme Court for cert.. They may have won on incorporation, but they "lost" on the appeal overall, and thus are the ones who can appeal further. This is good for them. Defendants are not in control, cannot move for rehearing en banc, or decline to file for cert..
In the World War Two analogy, we're off the beach and into the bocage. To paraphrase an email I received yesterday:
Step One: individual, fundamental right
Step Two: incorporation
Step Three: strict scrutiny standard
Step Four: Profit!!!
Well, there might be a significant devaluation of certain high-priced items if the Hughes Amendment gets iced as part of the NFA-removal...
ReplyDeleteBut honestly, we aren't worrying about that kind of profit/loss.
About a year ago I called in sick and spent the morning outside the Supreme Court building on the day of oral arguments for Heller vs. D.C.
ReplyDeleteThere have been some ups and downs, but overall it has been a hell of a good 12 months for gun owners!
karrde: now there's a supply/demand dynamic i can get behind!
ReplyDeleteas for tam's ww11 analogy:
Keep moving lads ... keep moving
Don't huddle on this beach
Don't make yourselves a target
For those guns up there to reach
Keep moving lads ... keep moving
There's the seawall ... over there
Keep moving lads ... keep moving
Don't falter ... or despair
Don't look ... at comrades falling
Around you ... everywhere
Keep moving lads ... keep moving
We can take this ... on the chin
Keep moving ... and keep praying
Before those guns ... they zero in.
t. chapman
NFA removal? What?
ReplyDeleteShootin' Buddy
Thanks for the link, Tam. I appreciate it!
ReplyDeleteStep Four: [Fun and] Profit!!!
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