Could High Court Free the Second Amendment?

Just another Main Stream Media’s attempt to destroy the second amendment. The phrase “since 1939″ certainly shouldn’t be considered having more authority than the original intent and understanding of the Bill of Rights. It does reveal the bias and the attempt to say… “its been this way for a long time, why go back to ancient history”.

Lets hope that the Supreme Court comes out with a strong decision freeing the 2nd amendment. Wouldn’t it be great if all laws restricting gun ownership completely? I don’t think it will go that far but perhaps… just maybe.

[USA Today] WASHINGTON — A U.S. appeals court decision defying precedent on gun rights has reached the steps of the Supreme Court, carrying with it the potential for a seismic shift in laws across the nation.

Since 1939, the nation’s judges had generally regarded the Second Amendment right “to keep and bear arms” as belonging to state militias, such as National Guard units, not to individual gun owners. But on March 9, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit interpreted the Second Amendment differently. The panel concluded that it protects an individual’s right to firearms and struck down a Washington, D.C., ban on handguns.

Now the justices are poised to announce as early as Tuesday whether they will take up the case. The court’s last major ruling on gun rights came in 1939 in United States v. Miller, when the justices said the Second Amendment covers a collective right of militias.

For decades, lower courts adopted that view. But judges are no longer in lock step, and today’s court might believe it is time, after nearly seven decades, to clarify the law.

Whether a majority of these nine justices would view the Second Amendment the same way as the 1939 court is difficult to predict because the court has seldom touched on this area of the law.

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