Supremes Appear to Lean Toward an Individual RKBA: When Supreme Court 
Justice Anthony Kennedy is cast as the swing vote in a case before the 
Court, he often waits until late in the oral argument to tip his hand. 
But as the Court considered the landmark Second Amendment case D.C. v. 
Heller on Tuesday, Kennedy was quick to lay bare his view on the scope 
of the right to bear arms contained in the amendment. The first part, he 
said, was meant to reaffirm "the existence and the importance" of the 
treatment of state militias contained in the Constitution itself. The 
second part, Kennedy asserted, means that "in addition" there is a right 
to bear arms, which he later declared was a "general right." 
...Kennedy's comments appeared to spell trouble for efforts by the 
District of Columbia to revive its strict handgun ban, although lawyers 
for both the Bush Administration and gun-rights advocates acknowledged 
that some lesser regulation of the right would be acceptable. Counting 
Kennedy, it appeared that five or more justices were ready to recognize 
some form of an individual right to keep and bear arms that is only 
loosely tethered, if at all, to the functioning of militias. What kind 
of regulation of that individual right will be allowed by those justices 
is uncertain...

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Stephen P. Wenger, KE7QBY

Firearm safety - It's a matter 
for education, not legislation.

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