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Second Circuit: Heller doesn't apply to states

KBCraig

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Here's a case that could force a SCOTUS decision on incorporating the 2nd Amendment under the 14th.

http://reason.com/blog/show/131610.html

...the federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals has said it before (in the 2005 case Bach v. Pataki), and now they've said it again, in Maloney v. Cuomo. CrimProf Blog has some details:
The Second Amendment guarantee of the right to bear arms does not apply to override state firearms bans, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit declared Jan. 28. Under the incorporation doctrine, only certain provisions of the Bill of Rights apply to the states, and the Second Amendment is one of those that does not, the Second Circuit held....
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The case on the nearest horizon that holds the most hope for generating a new, post-Heller, consideration of the Second Amendment incorporation question is the Ninth Circuit case Nordyke v. King. Damon Root wrote about it back in October.
 

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Okay, I'll agree with said opinion if this means states can override federal bans on machine guns and other restricted weapons.
 

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insane.kangaroo wrote:
Okay, I'll agree with said opinion if this means states can override federal bans on machine guns and other restricted weapons.
...and all interstate-commerce laws.

Edit: If the Bill of Rights doesn't apply to States, what's the problem with re-instating slavery in the South? They still have cotton fields, right? The implications of human rights (the right to defend and preserve your own life, the right to be a free person) not applying is appalling. That's what Socialism is about though, isn't it?
 

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I wouldn't dwell on this ruling too much. The court said they are still bound by Cruikshank and Presser, and the Plantiff didn't ask for a inquiry using the modern incorporation doctrine. So really there was no other way to go.



They didn't actually reject incorporation, it just never came up.
 

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press1280 wrote:
I wouldn't dwell on this ruling too much. The court said they are still bound by Cruikshank and Presser, and the Plantiff didn't ask for a inquiry using the modern incorporation doctrine. So really there was no other way to go.

 

They didn't actually reject incorporation, it just never came up.


Well someone needs to push it forward.
 
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