Congress sides with DC Court on Gun Ban

[scjbob]

The Washington Post reports, “A majority of the Senate and more than half of the members of the House will file a brief today urging the Supreme Court to uphold a ruling that the District’s handgun ban violates the Second Amendment.” The brief notes, “This court should give due deference to the repeated findings over different historical epochs by Congress, a co-equal branch of government, that the amendment guarantees the personal right to possess firearms.” It continues, “The District’s prohibitions on mere possession by law-abiding persons of handguns in the home and having usable firearms there are unreasonable.”

[reels18]

Very surprising.

[sjl127]

fuck......

[c.sander]

sjl whats wrong? i think you are misreading, the house n senate are standing up for gun owners, this is a good thing, they are urging the ban be over turned

[Pro2A]

Originally Posted by reels18

Very surprising.

Not really. There are a lot more pro-gunners then there are anti-gunners in congress. Even a lot of Democrats are pro-gun. Our very own Bob Casey has a strong pro-2A stance.

[reels18]

Did Casey revive from his coma? He is the typical "get elected and disappear" politician.

[markheck1]

that's all well and good....but aren't they supposed to stay the hell out of the judicial system?

[larrymeyer]

Link to the post story

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...020702113.html

[sjl127]

sarcasm..

I hate this 10 character nonsense.

[awkx]

This is truly excellent news; the pro-control justices will have a much harder time getting away with deliberately misinterpreting the Second Amendment now that a majority of both houses of Congress have declared in no uncertain terms that it protects a fundamental individual right and that infringements thereof should be reviewed with strict judicial scrutiny.

Here's the brief: www.gurapossessky.com/news/parker/documents/07-290bsacMembersUSSenate.pdf
(right-click and choose "Save").

Pennsylvania Congressmen who joined the amicus brief:

• Senator Robert P. Casey, Jr. (PA, D)
• Senator Arlen Specter (PA, R)
• Representative Jason Altmire (PA-4, D)
• Representative Christopher P. Carney (PA-10, D)
• Representative Charles W. Dent (PA-15, R)
• Representative Philip S. English (PA-3, R)
• Representative James W. Gerlach (PA-6, R)
• Representative T. Timothy Holden (PA-17, D)
• Representative Paul E. Kanjorski (PA-11, D)
• Representative Timothy F. Murphy (PA-18, R)
• Representative John P. Murtha, Jr. (PA-12, D)
• Representative John E. Peterson (PA-5, R)
• Representative Joseph R. Pitts (PA-16, R)
• Representative Todd R. Platts (PA-19, R)
• Representative William F. Shuster (PA-9, R)

Update: Thanks to rwilson452 and kpw for pointing out omissions. I don't know how I missed them; maybe simply human error, or maybe the search functionality of my old version of acroread was broken for this document. Anyhow, I've fixed the above list.