[Vision2020] A recent opinion poll conducted by the Lewiston Tribune shows . . .

[Sunil]

Scott,

I was asking a rhetorical question. The Supreme Court hasn't ruled directly but said this in Heller v. DC:

"Although we do not undertake an exhaustive historical analysis today of
 the full scope of the Second Amendment, nothing in our opinion should 
be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of
 firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the 
carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government 
buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the 
commercial sale of arms."

Since background checks address those prohibitions, I'd say they are constitutional.

Sunil

From: scooterd408 at hotmail.com
To: sunilramalingam at hotmail.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] A recent opinion poll conducted by the Lewiston Tribune shows . . .
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 12:20:28 -0600




<How is it constitutional to go through a background check at Tri State 
and unconstitutional to have to go through the same procedure at a gun 
show?>

That's a question for the Supreme Court if a case reaches that high.  I think background checks make sense for anyone purchasing a firearm but 'the world according to rules of Scott Dredge' would be a very bleak place as I also think the NSA scanning meta data makes sense.  I'm all for preventing bad guys / dysfunctional people / screwed up individuals / dangerous groups from wreaking destructive havoc on others.

From: sunilramalingam at hotmail.com
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 11:12:23 -0700
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] A recent opinion poll conducted by the Lewiston Tribune shows . . .




Scott,

If you were correct we would not have background checks anywhere,  right? 

How is it constitutional to go through a background check at Tri State and unconstitutional to have to go through the same procedure at a gun show? 

These checks are not the. 'tyranny of the masses. '

Sunil

Sunil

From: scooterd408 at hotmail.com
To: moscowcares at moscow.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 11:40:03 -0600
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] A recent opinion poll conducted by the Lewiston Tribune shows . . .




Sounds good to me too.  If we actually lived in a democracy where the tyranny of the masses could trump individual rights, some these types of background check requirements might actually have some teeth.  However, in the real world of the good old US and A, all it takes is one person to object to background checks as violating their 4th Amendment right en route to them exercising their 2nd Amendment right and the result is a tried and true recipe to strike down these background checks.  Opinion polls be damned.  That's akin to trying to justify that inter racial marriage bans should have been kept in place considering that 70+ percent of southern whites and 40+ percent of northern whites favored the bans.

From: moscowcares at moscow.com
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 03:02:17 -0700
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] A recent opinion poll conducted by the Lewiston	Tribune shows . . .


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