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DOJ Concludes 2nd Amendment "Secures individual right&q
« on: December 19, 2004, 09:22:10 AM »
First off, the entire report is available at http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/secondamendment2.htm

NEWS RELEASE
JUSTICE DEPT. CONCLUDES 2ND AMENDMENT 'SECURES INDIVIDUAL RIGHT'

      The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) today hailed a report from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel that concludes the Second Amendment "secures an individual right to keep and bear arms."

      Though dated Aug. 24, the 93-page document was just released. It details the exhaustive research by Assistant Attorneys General Steven G. Bradbury, Howard C. Nielson, Jr. and C. Kevin Marshall who studied the history of legislation and court cases to reach their conclusion. They note that, "our examination of the original meaning of the Amendment provides extensive reasons to conclude that the Second Amendment secures an individual right, and no persuasive basis for either the collective-right or quasi-collective-right views."

      "This report confirms what the gun rights community has known to be true for many years," said SAF founder Alan M. Gottlieb. "The right to keep and bear arms is a right to be enjoyed and exercised by every citizen. Henceforth, all Americans will know that the claim by anti-gunners that the Amendment only protects some mythical right of the states to form militias and National Guard units is an outright fraud."

      "For too long," stated CCRKBA Executive Director Joe Waldron, "enemies of individual liberty have lied to the American public. They've tried to convince us that we have no right of self-defense, no right to own firearms as personal property, and no right to have the means to resist tyranny, which is what the Founding Fathers specifically had in mind when they wrote the Second Amendment. There is nothing in the Amendment about 'sporting purposes,' duck hunting or target shooting, and the anti-gunners know it. Now all Americans know it, too."

      "There should be no doubt," Gottlieb concluded, "that those who have campaigned for restrictive gun laws or outright gun bans have been working to rob Americans of a constitutional right, a civil right. The time has come for America to re-examine every restrictive federal and state firearms statute, every local ordinance and every regulation, and start erasing those that were written solely to infringe on the rights of individual, law-abiding citizens to peaceably own firearms of their choice, without ever again having to explain why."
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Re: DOJ Concludes 2nd Amendment "Secures individual rig
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2004, 08:16:17 PM »
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First off, the entire report is available at http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/secondamendment2.htm

NEWS RELEASE
JUSTICE DEPT. CONCLUDES 2ND AMENDMENT 'SECURES INDIVIDUAL RIGHT'

      The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) today hailed a report from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel that concludes the Second Amendment "secures an individual right to keep and bear arms."

      Though dated Aug. 24, the 93-page document was just released. It details the exhaustive research by Assistant Attorneys General Steven G. Bradbury, Howard C. Nielson, Jr. and C. Kevin Marshall who studied the history of legislation and court cases to reach their conclusion. They note that, "our examination of the original meaning of the Amendment provides extensive reasons to conclude that the Second Amendment secures an individual right, and no persuasive basis for either the collective-right or quasi-collective-right views."

      "This report confirms what the gun rights community has known to be true for many years," said SAF founder Alan M. Gottlieb. "The right to keep and bear arms is a right to be enjoyed and exercised by every citizen. Henceforth, all Americans will know that the claim by anti-gunners that the Amendment only protects some mythical right of the states to form militias and National Guard units is an outright fraud."

      "For too long," stated CCRKBA Executive Director Joe Waldron, "enemies of individual liberty have lied to the American public. They've tried to convince us that we have no right of self-defense, no right to own firearms as personal property, and no right to have the means to resist tyranny, which is what the Founding Fathers specifically had in mind when they wrote the Second Amendment. There is nothing in the Amendment about 'sporting purposes,' duck hunting or target shooting, and the anti-gunners know it. Now all Americans know it, too."

      "There should be no doubt," Gottlieb concluded, "that those who have campaigned for restrictive gun laws or outright gun bans have been working to rob Americans of a constitutional right, a civil right. The time has come for America to re-examine every restrictive federal and state firearms statute, every local ordinance and every regulation, and start erasing those that were written solely to infringe on the rights of individual, law-abiding citizens to peaceably own firearms of their choice, without ever again having to explain why."


It's always nice to see people support that position or opinion but alas, it's just that.  Another opinion.  I don't think I'd run out and start patting people on their backs and firing up victory cigars quite yet.

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Re: DOJ Concludes 2nd Amendment "Secures individual rig
« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2004, 08:23:11 PM »
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It's always nice to see people support that position or opinion but alas, it's just that.  Another opinion.  I don't think I'd run out and start patting people on their backs and firing up victory cigars quite yet.

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I agree, but it's always nice to know that the DOJ agrees with the bare minimum.   :?
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Re: DOJ Concludes 2nd Amendment "Secures individual rig
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2004, 08:30:30 PM »
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It's always nice to see people support that position or opinion but alas, it's just that.  Another opinion.  I don't think I'd run out and start patting people on their backs and firing up victory cigars quite yet.

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I agree, but it's always nice to know that the DOJ agrees with the bare minimum.   :?


Unfortunately, the DOJ legal beagle bureaucrats tend to rotate along with the administration in office and reflect similar views.

Really, it would be nice if it really meant something but it doesn’t.

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« Reply #4 on: December 20, 2004, 10:54:53 AM »
Thanks for the post Paco.
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« Reply #5 on: December 20, 2004, 11:18:42 AM »
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Thanks for the post Paco.
No problem.  :)
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