Sporting purpose?

From the US v. Miller ruling:

The Court can not take judicial notice that a shotgun having a barrel less than 18 inches long has today any reasonable relation to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia; and therefore can not say that the Second Amendment guarantees to the citizen the right to keep and bear such a weapon.

So the appeal was denied because the Court did not believe that a short barrel shotgun could be considered a military weapon! If you haven’t read the Miller decision, you should go read it and see what it really says. It’s not what the the anti-gun crowd says. The decision nowhere touches on the topic of individual v. collective right.

~ by robkeeney on 2 August 2007.