X Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Our strategy is to encourage the court to recognize the Second Amendment as
> an individual right and to declare the D.C. handgun ban unconstitutional, so
> that residents who are daily threatened by criminal violence may keep
handguns
> in their homes to defend themselves.  That's just the first step.  If we can
> persuade the court to invalidate the gun ban, I certainly foresee taking the
> next step of attacking the registration of firearms as being in violation of
> the
> Second Amendment.

While I agree with Steve's strategy here, I am not sure that
attacking registration of firearms under the Second Amendment
is going to work.  The best that I can imagine is to use the
"chilling effect" argument against registration.

Clayton E. Cramer           [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.claytoncramer.com
Being a citizen of the Republic is not a spectator sport.

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