From "The War On Guns"...

Judge OKs Fincher Arguments

A man charged with possessing illegal machine guns will be able to argue at trial federal gun laws are unconstitutional, a judge ruled Tuesday. But, the judge is not going to allow the trial to digress into a freewheeling, uncontrolled debate of the Second Amendment in front of the jury.

"This could be huge.

Which means the big gun lobbying groups will no longer be able to ignore this case. So don't be surprised to hear rumbles of discontent, followed by full blown accusations that this is a horrible case that will ruin everything for everybody and put all of our "gun rights" at risk."

Far too often, the NRA does lawyer-up and cherry picks which defendant is worthy of a strong defense. I understand that their resources are finite, but for chrissake just say as much and be done with searching for the perfect case. Of course Federal gun laws are unconstitutional, but dollars to doughnuts the jury gets overwhelmed and decides the case on how much they like and/or empathize with the defendant. Many of the Eloi fall for the tired old line about "who really NEEDS such a weapon?" rather than exert the effort to seperate rhetoric from reality. The Constitution is clear but lawyers have had how many decades to perfect the art of weasel-wording unto an artform.