Reply #39: The stooges at the Brady Campaign don't sound at all happy...

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about this.

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Brady Center Statement On The District Of Columbia's Decision To Appeal Second Amendment Ruling
For Immediate Release:
07-16-2007

Washington, D.C. - Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence President Paul Helmke issued the following statement on the decision by Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty to request U.S. Supreme Court review of the ruling by a Federal Appeals Court striking down the District’s strict handgun law:

“The Appeals Court decision striking down the District of Columbia handgun law was a highly questionable example of judicial activism. It ignored longstanding U.S. Supreme Court precedent, discounted the express language of the Second Amendment, and substituted the policy preferences of two federal judges for those of local elected officials and the citizens they represent.

“If the U.S. Supreme Court decides to hear this case, it could produce the most significant Second Amendment ruling in our history. If the U.S. Supreme Court follows the words of the U.S. Constitution and the Court’s own precedents, it should reverse the Appeals Court ruling and allow the District’s law to stand.”

On March 9, 2007, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, by a 2-1 vote, invalidated the District of Columbia’s handgun law. This ruling was the first Federal Appellate Court ruling in U.S. history striking down a gun law on Second Amendment grounds.

Departing from the conclusions of nine other Federal Circuit Courts, Judge Laurence Silberman’s majority opinion in Parker v. District of Columbia found that the Second Amendment’s language did not involve just the possession and use of firearms in connection with service in organized militias, but rather extended to the personal possession of guns for private purposes like self-defense and hunting. On May 8, 2007, the D.C. Circuit denied rehearing en banc, with Judges Randolph, Rogers, Tatel and Garland voting to grant rehearing.

http://bradycampaign.org/media/release.php?release=910