7th Circuit: Feds can't regulate gun rights but states and local governments can regulate all they want

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Today, Richard Posner and Frank Easterbrook, appointed to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago by President Ronald Reagan ... joined a 3-0 ruling that upheld weapons ordinances in Chicago and suburban Oak Park, Illinois, and rejected challenges by gun rights advocates.

“The Supreme Court has rebuffed requests to apply the Second Amendment to the states,” Easterbrook wrote for the three-judge court.

In its ruling last year on the Washington handgun ban, the Supreme Court said the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to bear arms against regulation by the District of Columbia and the federal government.

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Posner and Easterbrook are leaders of the so-called law and economics school of thought that espouses free-market principles to help resolve legal questions.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20090602...rg/au4tj_mlpv40

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An Important Footnote

The Supreme Court said in a footnote to its 5-4 ruling in the Washington case that it didn't decide whether the Second Amendment binds the states as well as the federal government and the District of Columbia.

The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this year that states are bound by the Second Amendment’s protection for an individual’s right to bear arms -- in contrast to the three-judge panel in New York that included Sotomayor. The 9th Circuit struck down a local ordinance that banned guns from public property.

Nice try A.J. Still, a nice read.

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Interesting constitutional back-blow, eh?

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Interesting constitutional back-blow, eh?

This is when anti-federalist, state's rights proponents' heads explode.

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the contrast between the rulings of the different districts will force the resolution of the issue in the SCOTUS. SCOTUS will find for incorporation, as it has done in the past in regard to other civil rights. the legal basis for the assumption is sound.