LA Times
- The Supreme Court set the stage Tuesday for a historic ruling on whether the fiercely debated 2nd Amendment protects the rights of Americans to keep handguns at home.
The justices said they would review an appeals court decision that struck down a 31-year-old ban on handguns in Washington, D.C. The case will be heard early next year and decided by next summer.
While outright bans on the private possession of guns are rare, many cities and states regulate firearms. If the high court rules in favor of gun owners, the decision could open the door to challenges to regulations and restrictions on firearms across the nation.
Me, I'm thinking that this will all end up in a 5-4 decision (penned by Kennedy) in which the majority finds that the 2nd Amendment protects civilian ownership of only 22-caliber or less, while Scalia's scathing dissent points out the prevalence of trebuchets in colonial backyards, which therefore permits citizens to own and possess anything short of fissile material, which of course can only be possessed by Federal agents or terrorist networks.
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