The American Bar Association's ABAJournal magazine takes a look at the D.C. handgun court case, the U.S. Supreme Court, and how the NRA allegedly tried to derail the case. Now the world's largest firearms safety organization has jumped on the bandwagon. Click on the post headline for the full story.
Editor's Note: We dealt with the same situation in Columbus back in 1989-90. The NRA told the organizers of Peoples Rights Organization to withdraw a lawsuit against the City of Columbus over a gun ban. The NRA said we didn't know what we were doing, that their suit had a better chance. So PRO withdrew its suit to let the NRA's Cleveland action go forward -- with one stipulation. If they lost, our suit would be reinstated and they would pay the bills to move it forward. Their case in Cleveland went down in flames. They helped fund our suit. We won. Twice in federal court against Columbus. It would be 15 years before Columbus would try to pass another gun ban.
07 November 2007
Did NRA Try to Derail Washington D.C. Handgun Suit?
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I should note that the reason the NRA likely wanted to put the brakes on this suit was concern over the makeup of the court. A court judgment -- even from the Supremes -- can go either way. There is no such thing as a slam dunk in ANY court. The more fruitful fix, I believe the NRA was working toward, was to simply have Congress eliminate the ban, which it has the power to do. Over the years I have talked to many a legal scholar -- on BOTH sides of the Second Amendment debate -- who said they really did not want the high court to revisit the issue. BOTH sides are worried about the outcome going against them.
I think Brent is correct. Even now, with Roberts and Alito, Kennedy is the swing vote that could give us a great victory or a stinging defeat. I am guardedly optimistic.
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