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Minnesota AG Mike Hatch has joined
twelve other Attorney Generals in supporting a meaningful individual right
to keep and bear arms. The amicus brief was filed June 16, 2006 in
Parker v. DC. (the Cato Institute-backed Second Amendment-based challenge to
DC's gun ban now on appeal in the US Court of appeals for the Disctrict of
Columbia http://www.cato.org/research/articles/levy-030219.html ).
The AGs position is that:
"The district court's holding that
the Second Amendment does not protect an individual right to keep and bear arms
denies American citizens a fundamental right guaranteed by the
Constitution. *** [A]lthough the individual right to keep and bear
arms protected by the Second Amendment is not an absolute right immune from any
restrictions whatsoever, ... the D. C. Code provisions ... which essentially
impose blanket prohibitions on handgun ownership and possession of
functional long guns..., are fundamentally inconsistent with the Second
Amendment right of Americans to keep and bear arms. As such, they are
unconstitutional on their face."
I have a hard copy.
Electronic copies may be available from the Texas
AG's Office: contact Sean D. Jordan, Esq.,
Texas Assistant Solicitor General, (512)
936-1700.
Professor Joseph Olson, J.D.,
LL.M. o-
651-523-2142
Hamline University School of Law f- 651-523-2236 St. Paul, MN 55113-1235 c- 612-865-7956 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
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