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Death by a Thousand Cuts Latest Ninth Circuit decision proclaims selling firearms is not part or parcel of the right to keep and bear arms
Submitted by: Mark A. Taff
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Since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its landmark rulings in District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago, lower courts across the country have expressed their disagreement with or downright hostility to the Second Amendment by distorting or disregarding these rulings to the detriment of gun owners.

Joining this judicial obliteration of the fundamental right to keep and bear arms is a new decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, sitting en banc, regarding the extent to which the Second Amendment protects the right of law-abiding Americans to sell and buy firearms.

Comment by: mickey (10/14/2017)

Buying a gun has nothing to do with keeping and bearing arms, because anybody who wants to buy a foundry and a machine shop can simply build a gun for themselves.

Perhaps we can also limit abortions to women who have the resources to become MDs before giving themselves an abortion? I'm sure the 9th Circus Courts wouldn't find that to be overly burdensome. After all, they just established the precedent for it.

Comment by: PHORTO (10/14/2017)

This is a zoning issue, much like the attempt by Chicago to stifle the 2A by using zoning to prohibit gun ranges in Cook County. The court ruled that such tactics materially infringe 2a protections.

This is no different. Substitute "dealers" for "gun ranges", and you have exactly the same issue.

That puts the 7th Circuit and the 9th Circuit in conflict.

SCOTUS, anyone....?