Hi Alex...
On 02/20/98, Alex Vasauskas mumbled this about 2d Amendment Fraud?.
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>
BP> The US Supreme Court has consistently refused to take 2nd Amendmen
BP> cases since the Miller case in 1939 when only the Government's side
BP> was heard.  The lower level courts just ignore the Miller decision,
BP> so it doesn't do any good to raise this issue.  The NRA has also
BP> been removed as a plantiff in the "assualt weapons", magazine ban
BP> case anyway. The Appeals Court said they didn't even have standing
BP> to challenge it.
AV>
AV> According to the correspondence I posted along with the above and the
AV> latest _National Rifleman_, the standing dismissal was overturned. But,
AV> even if the NRA didn't have standing, this doesn't mean that it couldn't
AV> sponsor citizens who do have standing in order to assure that their cases
AV> turn out right and that everyone else's are thereby protected -- kind of
AV> like the ACLU does (although, hypocritically, the ACLU doesn't care about
AV> 2nd Amendment civil liberties or the fact that there may not be civil
AV> liberties except for the 2nd Amendment and private gun ownership).
    Maybe what is needed here is a class action lawsuit...
        Brian
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    Hi Ernie...
On 02/20/98, Earnest Padgette mumbled this about Re: NRA General RKBA
Dig.
EP>         Brian, if you want info, get on NRA's weekly fax alert. Ernie P.
    How do I go about doing this???  (I don't do the I'net, but I do have a
FAX)
    Thanx...
        Brian
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