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Author: Paul StevensPaul Stevens Date: Jun 29, 2008 07:51
"David Moffitt" stomping-leftist-twits.org> wrote in message
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> "Paul Stevens" bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> | "Kent Finnell" bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> | > In any case, the Second Amendment isn't about hunting.
> | >
> | >
> |
> | Which was pointed out in Heller. Miller has been horribly
> | misrepresented as stating that the second amendment only applies
> | to militias. In Heller, it's pointed out that (as can be seen if you
> | simply take the time to read Miller) Miller states that the second
> | amendment applies only to 'arms' that are considered to be
> | common arms for a militia.
> |
> | In other words, the second amendment (as interpreted in Miller,
> | and pointed out in Heller) means that I (as a private individual) have
> | a right to own a fully auto M-16, but I don't have a right to own a
> | skeet/trap shotgun or a lever action Winchester.
> |
> | So, if the NRA goes after a few local handgun bans, and continues
> | to ignore the 1986 ban (that they allowed to pass as a compromise),
> | they are still playing the 'this gun good, that gun bad' game.
>
> There is no such thing as a "bad gun".
>
Heston stated, shortly after he was elected as NRA vice-president,
that there was no reason for private citizens to own an AK-47.
After it became clear that he had pissed off a sizeable section of
the NRA membership with that comment, he stated that he had
made that statement in error, that he had thought that all AK-47's
were fully-automatic, and that his statement was intended to be
directed at fully-automatic AK-47's. Not surprisingly, his explanation
didn't sit too well, either, since he had explained that he had bought
into the propaganda that anything that looks like a machinegun *is*
a machinegun, then clarified that he didn't think private citizens
should own machineguns.
Since the 1986 ban applies only to certain machineguns (mainly
the modern ones that would be considered "in common use" by
the military or militia), if the NRA doesn't use Heller to go after
the 1986 ban, they are showing that they still follow Heston's
'this gun good, that gun bad' philosophy.
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