Fred Thompson Takes DOJ To The Woodshed Over Heller Brief To Supreme Court

Thompson accused the administration of "overlawyering" the case. After all, if an individual rights view of the Second Amendment does not proscribe an outright ban on handgun possession, there is not much left of the rights it purportedly protects.

Read some of his comments here, given as the candidate's bus tour stopped in Spartanburg, S.C., where he fielded questions at Papa's Breakfast Nook from Charlotte, N.C.'s WBT-AM radio talk show host.