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Gun Control on Trial

This weekend, I received a copy of Brian Doherty’s Gun Control on Trial: Inside the Supreme Court Battle Over the Second Amendment. A look at gun cases in various courts that leads up to Heller. A good read, so far. I’m only about 20 pages in and one interesting bit that I did not know was that US v. Miller was probably a set up designed to rule that the NFA was constitutional. Seems Miller just plead guilty but the judge (supposedly a gun control advocate) said no and issued him a lawyer. Miller didn’t care, he was a petty crook. Judge ruled NFA violated the second amendment in what was a weak ruling to move up the courts. At the supreme court, the defense never filed a brief and did not show up to argue the case. During all this, Miller went on the lam and was killed. Interesting.

Posted in uncategorized on February 9th, 2009 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |

4 Responses to “Gun Control on Trial”

  1. Thirdpower Says:
    February 9th, 2009 at 10:12 am

    IIRC, they informed the defense about a week or two before the case came up before the court.

  2. JJR Says:
    February 9th, 2009 at 12:51 pm

    Talk about “legislating from the bench”! I did not know that either. Thanks, Unc!

  3. Kevin P. Says:
    February 9th, 2009 at 2:58 pm

    See:
    The Peculiar Story of United States vs. Miller
    http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=981831

    This excellent paper was cited by Scalia in the Heller decision.

  4. Chas Says:
    February 9th, 2009 at 3:00 pm

    Sounds like Miller didn’t have much to do with the Miller decision – sounds like he was just a pawn who was used to advance an existing agenda.

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