Re: A Model, American Firearms Policy (Long)

On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 11:12:01 -0500, RD (The Sandman) wrote:

"Homespun Inc." <homespuninc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:1145200649.450638.183350@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

There are states that believe they are entitled to deprive citizens of
their right to keep and bear arms and other states that believe that
right is somehow discretionary. And that's wrong.

Yep, per the USSC in Presser v Illinois. States can limit the right to
keep and bear arms as long as an effective state militia is maintained.
The state cannot prohibit people from keeping and bearing arms "...so as
to deprive the United States of their rightful resource for maintaining
public security."

Presser was over the issue of whether the 2nd protected the right of
private groups to engage in confrontational armed processions.

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