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Guest editorial on Heller
Posted by David Hardy · 15 July 2008 10:08 AM
My column is here.
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Excellent. However, the majority erred also in redefining the core purpose of the amendment. An error (purposeful, I think) that very well may pave the way for worse restrictions and infringements than we have yet suffered.
Nice column!
I seem to recall Scalia made a similar mistake about Miller dealing with a conviction. Scalia wrote:
"Nothing so clearly demonstrates the weakness of
JUSTICE STEVENS’ case. Miller did not hold that and cannot possibly be read to have held that. The judgment in the case upheld against a Second Amendment challenge two men’s federal convictions for transporting an unregistered short-barreled shotgun in interstate commerce, in violation of the National Firearms Act, 48 Stat. 1236."