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More Second Amendment cases Saturday, June 28th, 2008 8:20 am | Lyle Denniston
The National Rifle Association on Friday began its courthouse campaign to extend the Second Amendment in order to restrict gun control laws in San Francisco, Chicago and three Chicago suburbs. As noted in a press release, the Association sought in all five lawsuits to have the Second Amendment incorporated into the Fourteenth Amendment, so that it would apply other than to the federal government. The lawsuits followed by one day the Supreme Court’s ruling in
District of Columbia v. Heller (07-290), declaring an individual right to have a gun in a home for self-defense.
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Gauging Interest In The Guns Case Friday, June 27th, 2008 3:04 pm | Jason Harrow Yesterday spawned a level of intense online interest in a Supreme Court decision like we at SCOTUSblog have never seen before. We thought we’d let you know a few of our statistics just to give you an idea of how significant this decision was.
Hits. In five and a half years, we’ve never had more than 100,000 hits on SCOTUSblog. Yesterday, though, we had our first 100,000 hit day. And then our first 200,000 hit and 300,000 hit day. By the end of the day, we had over 370,000 hits, and 240,000 nominally “unique” visitors (though, as Tom mentioned, that’s an imperfect count because it counts repeatedly the many people whose computers don’t accept cookies). We’re still amazed that our servers held up.
The ENTIRE SCOTUS DECISION, verbatum, official transcript, is available here:
http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/07-2901.pdf
157 pages. It's absorbing reading, complex, incisive. I would suggest READING the full opinion, the notes, citations, etc. and then move on to discussion forums such as this one.
As noted above, Heller opens the doors to a flood of litigation. NRA has begun the process the day after the decision. Heller is the tipping point that establishes a legal foundation for further litigation.
