tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830202261410894303.post8351027050697625035..comments2023-08-24T09:29:50.314-05:00Comments on One More Political Blog: How can we explain the court's anti-gun control ruling in Parker v. District of Columbia?DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728585939626103570noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830202261410894303.post-13509041557836263862007-06-15T03:03:00.000-05:002007-06-15T03:03:00.000-05:00Popular opinion has always read the second amendme...Popular opinion has always read the second amendment to secure the right of the people to keep and bear arms. Similarly one can find no legal commentator prior to the 1930s reading it any different. That is why Congress passed the National Firearms Act as a tax act. The NFA did not outlaw ownership of machine guns and other NFA weapons, it taxed them to death. The Miller decision ignored this and held instead merely that sawed off shotguns had not been shown to be useful in the hands of the militia. Miller you might want to know was an uncontested case with no record developed below. Miller was never convicted since he was murdered shortly thereafter.George Lyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07671488222229042079noreply@blogger.com