Should firearm related sales rise or fall if some believe the executive branch and the Supreme Court are relatively inclined to support civilian weapon restrictions?

Two kinds of morality

 

One which we preach but don’t practice

the other which we practice but seldom preach

 

Bertrand Russell

 

Would the founding fathers

have considered the right to bear arms

a protection for the citizenry against the government

or vice versa?

 

The Supreme Court yesterday

affirmed federal efforts to bar those convicted of crimes

involving domestic violence from owning guns

 

It was the court's first decision concerning gun rights

since last year's landmark decision

recognizing an individual's Second Amendment right

to own a firearm

 

…Justices wrangled over…Congress's decision

 to ban firearms to those convicted

 of "a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence"

 extended to someone convicted of a generic charge of battery

so long as there was a proven domestic relationship

 between the offender and the victim

 

The question was whether gun ownership was barred

because someone had been convicted of a generic law

against the use of force

or whether the law in question

must specifically have as an element

that the victim was in a domestic relationship

with the aggressor

 

…Fewer than half the states have laws

that specifically denominate domestic violence

as an element of a crime

 

Should an American cited for a misdemeanor

for an incident not involving a gun

be barred from owning one?

 

Justices Uphold Ban On Guns for Abusers

Robert Barnes

Washington Post, February 25, 2009