Supreme Court declines to clarify gun rights question

Supreme Court declines to clarify gun rights question

The US Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up a potentially important gun rights case, which could have established guideposts for future gun regulations at the local, state, and national levels.

By Warren Richey, Staff writer / November 28, 2011

 

WASHINGTON

The US Supreme Court declined Monday to take up a potentially important gun rights case examining whether a federal regulation banning loaded firearms from vehicles in a government park violated the constitutional right to keep and bear arms.

 

Lawyers for a Virginia man had asked the justices to examine a question left largely unresolved in the high court’s two prior landmark rulings identifying the scope and substance of Second Amendment protections. The question is: Does the Second Amendment guarantee a right to bear arms in public for personal protection?

 

The court dismissed the case in a one-line order without comment. The action leaves lower court rulings intact and postpones the prospect of high court clarification on a key gun rights issue.

 

In 2008, the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment establishes a fundamental right of law-abiding individuals to keep a handgun in their home for self-protection. In 2010, the high court extended that ruling to apply Second Amendment guarantees beyond federal enclaves like Washington, D.C., to all state and local jurisdictions.

 

The dismissed appeal, Masciandaro v. US (10-11212), had asked the court to examine whether Americans have a right to carry loaded weapons in public places for self defense. 

 

How the justices answered that question would have established guideposts for future gun regulations at the local, state, and national levels of government.

 

In the 2008 decision, District of Columbia v. Heller, the court said that gun rights are not unlimited. The court said there is no right to “carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.”

 

Gun rights advocates say that statement confirms a right to carry at least some weapons, in some manner, for some purpose.

 

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2011/1128/Supreme-Court-declin...

 

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  The right to KEEP AND BEAR ARMS SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. That means by Yogi Bear, Ranger Smith, Sammy Squirrel or the SCOTUS. Keep your hands away from American's lawful weapons and genitals. Until the SCOTUS comes out and says OUT LOUD just who DID do 9-11, they are an entity irrelevant to the process of safety and security in America, especially if they now are making threats as well, in which case it is a trip to the slammer for them. America was not created for federally sanctioned persecution or molestation.

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