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**Quvwcxqx** · 06-24-2007, 05:36 AM

I haven't read back through all the posts. But it looks like, at long last, we may get a final Supreme Court decision on whether the Second Amendment confers a direct individual right to own weapons (including, but not limited to, handguns).

There's a case out of DC (Parker v. Washington DC), which challenged what is essentially a ban on private handgun ownership. A panel of the DC Circuit overturned the law, and the full Circuit refused to review the ruling. This puts the DC Circuit in direct conflict with other circuits (most noteably the 9th in San Francisco). This means that this is likely heading to the SCOTUS.

Given that between the Reagan and two Bush appointment, the SCOTUS has gotten pretty conservative, I think it's a better than even chance that they'll uphold the DC Circuit ruling and read the 2A as conferring an individual right.

06-24-2007, 05:36 AM	#42
Quvwcxqx Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 402 Senior Member	I haven't read back through all the posts. But it looks like, at long last, we may get a final Supreme Court decision on whether the Second Amendment confers a direct individual right to own weapons (including, but not limited to, handguns). There's a case out of DC (Parker v. Washington DC), which challenged what is essentially a ban on private handgun ownership. A panel of the DC Circuit overturned the law, and the full Circuit refused to review the ruling. This puts the DC Circuit in direct conflict with other circuits (most noteably the 9th in San Francisco). This means that this is likely heading to the SCOTUS. Given that between the Reagan and two Bush appointment, the SCOTUS has gotten pretty conservative, I think it's a better than even chance that they'll uphold the DC Circuit ruling and read the 2A as conferring an individual right.
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