Copied from Musings of the GeekwithA45
and reprinted in its entirety. Well said!
Dick Heller Doubles Down.
Dick Heller won “standing” to bring his suit to federal court simply because he’d had enough juice to make DC give him a gun registration application to fill out, and to force them to actually go through the motions and stamp the thing “rejected”.
Because of that one fact, he was able to maneuver the byzantine restrictions and rules on who can and can’t claim infringement of 2A in court.
So, after DC announces all sorts of draconian restrictions, basically throwing every darned obstacle they think they can get away with, including the ludicrous assertion that every bottom loading semi-auto handgun is classified as a machine gun, guess who shows up first in line to register handguns?
You betcha, our hero, Dick Heller. (No doubt, with our other Heroes, Gupta and Levy lurking somewhere in the background)
And what does he pull out and try to register? Daring them to reject him again?
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A 1911.
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And what does DC do?
The inked up their “rejected” stamp, and stamped it on the application of the man who is the only human being on planet earth with a ruling from the Supreme Court of the United states that says:
Quote:
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Assuming he is not disqualified from exercising Second Amendment
rights*, the District must permit Heller to register his handgun and
must issue him a license to carry it in the home.
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*Which is elsewhere defined in the ruling as “not a felon and not insane”.
Nowhere in that ruling is there anything like “unless Heller’s handgun is a bottom loading semi-automatic”.
They’re pretty much just asking for it, aren’t they?
Pop the corn! Release the lions! Let the games begin!
And Dick, we know that you could have hauled out a revolver, and gotten your permit stamped that day. On behalf of a grateful Republic, Thank You, for rubbing those twit’s nose in it.
You sir, are a hero. No doubt about it.