NRA Loses At Supreme Court

Posted by | June 8, 2015 15:00 | Filed under: Good News Politics

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The Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to a ruling that requires gun owners to keep their guns locked or disabled when at home.

By declining to hear an appeal filed by gun owners and the National Rifle Association, the court left intact a March 2014 ruling by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that upheld the measure.

The regulation, issued in 2007, states that anyone who keeps a handgun at home must either store it in a locked container or disable it with a trigger lock.

The challengers said the regulation violates the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment, which guarantees the right to bear arms.

Two of the nine-justice court’s conservative justices, Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia, said they would have taken the case.

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14 responses to NRA Loses At Supreme Court

  1. Larry Schmitt June 8th, 2015 at 15:02

    This, of course, is the first step towards Obama’s Big Gun Confiscation. I’m not surprised that Thomas and Scalia would have taken the case. They also would have voted to overturn it.

    • bpollen June 8th, 2015 at 16:38

      Scalia thinks humanity has only been around for about 5k years, so he is obviously cool with not actually thinking.

    • Dwendt44 June 8th, 2015 at 18:11

      Though Scalia was the one that said there ‘could be’ limits on 2nd Amendment issues.
      There’s nothing unconstitutional about universal background checks or limits on magazine capacity.

  2. mea_mark June 8th, 2015 at 15:08

    Common sense wins over NRA non-sense. Good, very good.

  3. Red Eye Robot June 8th, 2015 at 17:03

    Bet you didn’t hear a federal judge threw out the Brady campaigns lawsuit against Kansas preemption law. Also that Maine is one step closer to permitless concealed carry

    • arc99 June 8th, 2015 at 17:38

      The decision in Kansas was based on lack of standing by any member of the Brady campaign. The ruling did not in any way address the 2nd amendment bona fides of the lawsuit. Due to the lack of standing, the federal court did not even consider the actual legal arguments and legal merit of the case.

      But don’t let facts get in your way. You never do.

      • thinkingwomanmillstone June 8th, 2015 at 19:17

        I bet he doesn’t understand anything you wrote. Lack of standing probably translates to him as the litigants were all seated in wheel chairs.

      • rg9rts June 9th, 2015 at 06:22

        Don’t confuse Gary with the facts…his RWNJ talk show lives on half truths

  4. Dwendt44 June 8th, 2015 at 18:12

    Watch for the rabid right start up again with the ‘the 9th circuit is a radical leftist court’ crapola.
    Fact is, the 9th is middle of the road court.

  5. fahvel June 9th, 2015 at 02:46

    the idiot and the yck wanted to take it??? well, 7 of 9 seem to have made a good choice. I assume that’s how it works.

  6. rg9rts June 9th, 2015 at 06:20

    Moe and Larry would have taken the case…

  7. illinoisboy1977 June 9th, 2015 at 10:34

    Well… Since the police can’t search your home without a warrant, they’re not going to know whether your guns are locked or not. Just sayin’…

  8. johnnybizzoy June 10th, 2015 at 03:22

    Why should people have to lock up their own guns? Why don’t folks who want to lock up their guns do it, and let everyone else alone?

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