At 4:22 PM -0500 9/8/03, Robert Woolley wrote: > The announcement appears on the Brady Campaign web site, in a 9/5 press > release: > > U. S. Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Federal Assault Weapon Ban - The > U.S. Supreme Court rejected a legal challenge to the federal assault weapon > ban that had been brought by two gun manufacturers. The court, without > comment, rejected an appeal that claimed Congress exceeded its power to > regulate interstate commerce when it outlawed such weapons in 1994. The 1994 > law, an amendment to the Gun Control Act of 1968, defines semiautomatic > assault weapons to include a list of specified firearms and "copies or > duplicates of the firearms in any caliber.'' > > Does anybody know what case this is, and the reference for the lower court > decisions?
Navegar v. U.S., 99-1874. See http://www.kron4.com/global/story.asp?s=142796&ClientType=Printable As usual, the Brady Center is "spinning" the result. The Cout did not "reject" the challenge, it just declined to hear the case. "The sole significance of such a denial... means simply that fewer than four members of the Court deemed it desirable to review a decision of the lower court... A variety of considerations underlie denials... this Court has rigorously insisted that such a denial carries with it no implication whatever regarding the Court's views on the merits of a case which it has declined to review. The Court has said this again and again; again and again the admonition has to be repeated." Justice Felix Frankfurter, Maryland v. Baltimore Radio, 338 US 912, 917-919 (1950) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://alum.mit.edu/www/tavares | RKBA! If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government -- and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws. --EDWARD ABBEY -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://alum.mit.edu/www/tavares | RKBA! Some people like asparagus, others do not. Asparagus doesn't care either way and it never changes. --WWW.CAMPERSALLIANCE.COM
