No news yet in Heller
Nov. 13th, 2007 11:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sorrowmonkeyNo news yet in the Heller case:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7073768,00.html
Crazy that the first report I was able to find (I've been watching all morning) was from a UK paper. I'm really torn on this one. I would like to see the Supreme Court take it and affirm, since it might be the only way that Connecticut's assault weapons ban would ever go away (if the reasoning is anything like the D.C. or 5th circuits), but if they decline than the D.C. handgun ban expires immediately. I think Fenty's ready to blow a gasket anyway.
It is, of course, possible that the Court could take the case and reverse. I think that is extremely unlikely based on the quality of the reasoning on both sides, and I think it can hardly damage the gun-rights case any more than the existing body of law.
EDIT: In other news, NYPD now apparently considers a HAIRBRUSH a deadly weapon:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/nyregion/14shootingcnd.html?hp
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7073768,00.html
Crazy that the first report I was able to find (I've been watching all morning) was from a UK paper. I'm really torn on this one. I would like to see the Supreme Court take it and affirm, since it might be the only way that Connecticut's assault weapons ban would ever go away (if the reasoning is anything like the D.C. or 5th circuits), but if they decline than the D.C. handgun ban expires immediately. I think Fenty's ready to blow a gasket anyway.
It is, of course, possible that the Court could take the case and reverse. I think that is extremely unlikely based on the quality of the reasoning on both sides, and I think it can hardly damage the gun-rights case any more than the existing body of law.
EDIT: In other news, NYPD now apparently considers a HAIRBRUSH a deadly weapon:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/nyregion/14shootingcnd.html?hp
