High court to look at ban on handguns

WASHINGTON — (Today) The Supreme Court will discuss gun control today in a private conference that soon could explode publicly.

Behind closed doors, the nine justices will consider taking a case that challenges the District of Columbia's stringent handgun ban. Their ultimate decision will shape how far other cities and states can go with their own gun restrictions.

"If the court decides to take this up, it's very likely it will end up being the most important Second Amendment case in history," said Dennis Henigan, the legal director for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

Henigan predicted "it's more likely than not" that the necessary four justices will vote to consider the case. The court will announce its decision Tuesday, and oral arguments could be heard next year.

Lawyers are swarming.

Texas, Florida and 11 other states weighed in on behalf of gun owners who are challenging D.C.'s strict gun laws. New York and three other states want the gun restrictions upheld. Pediatricians filed a brief supporting the ban. A Northern California gun dealer, Russell Nordyke, filed a brief opposing it.

Last March, a divided appellate court panel sided with the individual-rights interpretation and threw out the D.C. ban.

The ruling clashed with other appellate courts, creating the kind of appellate-circuit split that the Supreme Court likes to resolve. The ruling obviously stung D.C. officials, but it perplexed gun-control advocates.

If D.C. officials tried to salvage their gun-control law by appealing to the Supreme Court — as they then did — they could give the court's conservative majority a chance to undermine gun-control laws nationwide."

Any hint coming through as to the political persuasion of the author of this piece?

"Undermine gun-control laws nationwide."

The smart money says the Supremes give it the green light. This means socialist states begin scrambling to spend as much of our money as possible to retain the most expensive legal minds as possible in order to be up and raring to go come next year when the oral arguments begin.

Not that these legal-eagles will find much of anything to persuade an open-minded Court to uphold laws that flagrantly violate the Constitution, but the key phrase here is "open-minded".

Regardless, the first victory will be their decision to let loose the dogs of war. And it will BE a war, make no mistake.

Let the undermining begin!

Thanks to The War on Guns for the link.