It's About Time To Challenge Second Amendment Gun Rights
Thanks to the Virginia legislative action and with the refusal by counties to not enforce the law, this finally is going to set up the longstanding question as to whether American gun rights have gone too far. This case has the possibility of going to Virginia's partisan supreme court and even to the federal supreme court. Hopefully by the time it reaches the federal supreme court, the Democrats will have expanded SCOTUS.
Former Chief Justice Warren Burger is the most prominent Supreme Court figure who questioned the expansion of gun rights in the 1990s. In a widely cited 1990 PBS interview, Burger famously referred to the idea that the Second Amendment grants an individual, unfettered right to own a firearm as "[a] fraud on the American public". Burger, a conservative appointee of President Richard Nixon, maintained that the Second Amendment's mention of a "well regulated Militia" was intended solely to protect state armies, not to prevent reasonable, state-level firearm regulations like waiting periods or weapon registration.
Since then Breyer, Stevens, Sotomayor, and Kagan have coalesced around Burger's interpretation.
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It's About Time To Challenge Second Amendment Gun Rights
Thanks to the Virginia legislative action and with the refusal by counties to not enforce the law, this finally is going to set up the longstanding question as to whether American gun rights have gone too far. This case has the possibility of going to Virginia's partisan supreme court and even to the federal supreme court. Hopefully by the time it reaches the federal supreme court, the Democrats will have expanded SCOTUS.
Former Chief Justice Warren Burger is the most prominent Supreme Court figure who questioned the expansion of gun rights in the 1990s. In a widely cited 1990 PBS interview, Burger famously referred to the idea that the Second Amendment grants an individual, unfettered right to own a firearm as "[a] fraud on the American public". Burger, a conservative appointee of President Richard Nixon, maintained that the Second Amendment's mention of a "well regulated Militia" was intended solely to protect state armies, not to prevent reasonable, state-level firearm regulations like waiting periods or weapon registration.
Since then Breyer, Stevens, Sotomayor, and Kagan have coalesced around Burger's interpretation.