When did 2nd Amendment come to mean "anything goes" (for guns) ? -- answer, SCALIA.

[UTUSN]

My mantra from now on. Surely to be schooled.

[elleng]

1. Pretty much, but took more than Scalia;

he just 'wrote' the Heller decision.

'A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. In Heller, Justice Antonin Scalia divided the amendment into a “prefatory clause” (“militia”) and an “operative clause” (“right to keep and bear”). Then, drawing on statutory interpretation texts, he announced that the “militia” language expressed the amendment’s purpose, but that “a prefatory clause does not limit or expand the scope of the operative clause.”'

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/second-amendment-text-context/555101/

Part of the discussion in Sup Ct decision in Heller v. District of Columbia, “that [D.C.’s] ban on handgun possession in the home violates the Second Amendment, as does its prohibition against rendering any lawful firearm in the home operable for the purpose of immediate self-defense.”

[UTUSN]

2. I love your scholarship - *and* music and other arts! - thanks.

[elleng]

3. Thanks, UTU;

not much scholarship here, but this Scalia bit's 'notorious.'

See this today? He's looking over his partner on the nest, incubating; more 'later!' Sadly, my radio station's changed it's format, makes sharing difficult.

[UTUSN]

4. 'splain, please: This bird is named "Scalia"?! --- I'm a bit *dotty* as many will attest to here

[elleng]

5. The bird is Mr. Osprey!

Lives 6 months near my house 60 miles south of DC.

[UTUSN]

6. Well, that explains everything - uh

[malaise]

10. Lovely

Thanks

[elleng]

12. HEY, mal!'

[malaise]

13. Hey you

Happy Sunday elleng

[SYFROYH]

7. Since 1934 there have been Federal restrictions.

Since then it’s never been “anything goes” anywhere in the US.

[stewrat]

8. Allow me to school....

In the Heller decision, Scalia wrote "the 2nd Amendment right to possess firearms does not confer a right to possess any firearm, anywhere, and for any purpose" and some gun regulation is “presumptively lawful.” .....This nugget in the decision is what Conn. used as authority to ban assault rifles in that state and could be used in every state to enforce registration and other gun regulations.

Not that I'm any kind of fa of Scalia but I think he got it right here.

[UTUSN]

15. Schooling accepted. Am reacting to current moves to "Constitutional Carry" doing away with Permits.

To my unschooled kneejerk self, it sounds like the gun nuts want "anything goes".

[hack89]

9. Scalia believed that the 2A allowed strict gun control

All Heller allows is the ownership of a handgun in your home for self defense. Everything else is constitutional and fair game.

[UTUSN]

16. Thanks.

[Baitball Blogger]

11. Scalia really screwed us up.

If he had lived one more year, he would have made segregation compulsory.

[YMB]

14. Its never been "anything goes"

and thats not what Scalia says. Theres already a MASSIVE amount of gun laws across the US, they just dont all involve blanket bans.