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More Evidence That Heller and McDonald are Bad for Gun Rights


By Brian Altenhofel - Posted on 01 August 2010

On Friday, the Third Circuit issued a ruling that the federal law barring the possession of unmarked firearms passes Constitutional muster. The case is United States v. Marzzarella.

Here's a interesting passage from the opinion:

"...because § 922(k) is designed to regulate the commercial sale of firearms and to prevent possession by a class of presumptively dangerous individuals, it is analogous to several longstanding limitations on the right to bear arms identified as presumptively valid in Heller."

Don't you just love the fact that we don't have a Court that has the balls to revisit Slaughter-House even after admitting that it is a very flawed precedent? Heller and McDonald incorporating the Second Amendment against the states via Due Process has pushed us down a slippery slope, and that slope keeps getting slipperier with each new case.

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