AV> I have written to the NRA and been advised that the lawsuit
AV> it is backing to overturn the assault-weapons-and-high-
AV> capacity-magazines ban did not raise the 2nd Amendment as an
AV> issue.
AV> It is very curious to me that, for all of the NRA's
AV> noisemaking about the 2nd Amendment, this suit did not raise
AV> the 2nd Amendment as an issue.  I have the feeling that the NRA is
AV> being disingenuous and trying to milk gun-banning issues for
AV> all of the membership dues it can get, and that it doesn't
AV> really want this issue decided.
The US Supreme Court has consistently refused to take 2nd Amendment
cases since the Miller case in 1939 when only the Government's side
was heard.  The lower level courts just ignore the Miller decision,
so it doesn't do any good to raise this issue.  The NRA has also been
removed as a plantiff in the "assualt weapons", magazine ban case
anyway. The Appeals Court said they didn't even have standing to
challenge it.
There are plenty of people being convicted and imprisoned for
violating federal firearms laws that are direct violations of 2nd
Amendment rights. Many of these people have raised the issue but it
hasn't done them any good.
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