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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (26200)	5/27/2004 6:20:15 PM
From: Wayners	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Thats right the NRA isn't just focused on hunting because the 2nd Amendment isn't solely focused on hunting. In the 1930s a couple of bootleggers were caught by the Feds with sawed off shotguns. One of the guy's names was Miller. Miller claimed he had a 2nd Amendment right to own the sawed off shotgun and paying the tax on the gun was unconstitutional. The case went to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court first granted Miller standing under the 2nd Amendment..meaning the court believed the 2nd Amendment is not a State right by a right of the People. They then ruled that since sawed off shotguns were not weapons normally carried by the military, in supporting an efficient militia (every male 17 to 45 years old under Federal law) that Miller was required to pay the Tax. The point here is that this 1937 case was the last time the court ruled on the 2nd Amendment directly. The Supremes missed the fact that sawed off shotguns were issued to troops in WWI as trench guns. The point is the 2nd Amendment is about individuals owning military weapons for defense. Switzerland uses the same system today. Every household over there has a machine gun in it. There isn't any gun crime either. There is no relationship between owning an object and crime. The Swiss don't have the gang and drug problems in the U.S. where all the gun crime is committed.