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http://cbs11tv.com/local/Hutchison.Gun. ... 48625.html
Hutchison Urging Court To Overturn D.C. Gun Bans
WASHINGTON (AP) ― Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who might start a run for Texas governor next year, has mustered support from a majority of Senate and House members to help persuade the Supreme Court to strike down the District of Columbia's gun laws.

Hutchison said Thursday she is filing a friend-of-the-court brief in a challenge to the laws. Fifty-five senators and 249 House members have signed the brief to be filed Thursday by her and Sen. John Tester, D-Mont.

Hutchison has long opposed the district's ban on handguns and requirement that rifles and shotguns be registered, stored unloaded and either locked or disassembled. She sponsored legislation to overturn the district's laws, that has passed the House but not the Senate.

The district's law forced her to dismantle and return to Texas her .357 Magnum she brought with her when she moved from Austin.

"In Texas, of course, the right to keep and bear arms is well-settled. In fact, when in Texas you talk about gun control, they mean using two hands," Hutchison quipped in a speech organized by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.

A federal appeals court ruled in March that the district's ban is an unconstitutional infringement on an individual's right to keep and bear arms.

The district appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court, arguing the Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms only in the context of an organized militia. Hutchison argues it is an individual right. The court is expected to hear arguments next month.

"All of the congressional legislative history is assuming that the Second Amendment, which is in the Bill of Rights, is an individual right and for a city or state to thwart this by taking a person's right in their home to have a loaded gun, just seemed to be a perfect opportunity for the Supreme Court to affirm this individual right that Congress has acknowledged throughout its history," Hutchison said.

Tester said the writers of the Constitution did not intend for laws to be applied to some people and not others or to be applied some times and not others.

"We cannot restrict the right to bear arms just like we can't restrict the right to practice religion or the right of a free and independent press," Tester said.

Eleanor Holmes Norton, the congressional delegate for Washington, D.C., said Hutchison's brief is an attempt to get done in the courts what she couldn't get done in Congress. She has filed a friend-of-the court brief in support of the law.

Norton said the rules have been supported by all four mayors the district has had since it got home rule and has not been opposed by any City Council members.

"This is entirely a home rule, self-government matter. That is not anybody's business but our own," Norton said.

Hutchison said she's willing to accept some restrictions on the Second Amendment, in the same way the right to free speech does not allow a person to yell "Fire!" in a crowded movie house. She said she hopes the case will similarly set a standard for how far the district can go in restricting guns without infringing on a person's right to defend themselves in their home.

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Glad our Texas Senator is standing up for what is right. :txflag:
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Fifty-five senators and 249 House members have signed the brief ...
:shock:

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Now that's a woman who has got my vote for President.
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Nobody reads the federal area, do they?

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texasgirl wrote:Glad our Texas Senator is standing up for what is right. :txflag:
+1 :thumbs2:
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Kalrog wrote:Nobody reads the federal area, do they?

http://www.texasshooting.com/TexasCHL_F ... 15#p155026
Sorry I didn't even think to look there first. :oops:
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She's got my vote for Governor, especially after a certain Texas governor threw his support behind a certain ex-NY Mayor for president. I'm still working on figuring that one out. :nono:
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texasgirl wrote:Sorry I didn't even think to look there first. :oops:
Nobody does :lol:

It is one of the most overlooked areas of the forum.
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I like her.
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I like Kay Bailey Hutchinson myself, BUT, I find this extremely troubling and would like a very detailed explaination:


"Hutchison said she's willing to accept some restrictions on the Second Amendment"


anybody else find that to be a bit disconcerting?


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I haven't seen the Hutchinson brief yet, but Clayton Cramer (who helped write at least on brief, and is cited on the main brief by Heller's attorney) notes that in addition to the Senators and Congressmen who signed the brief, it is also signed by the President of the Senate, otherwise known as "Vice President Dick Cheney."

Also, the numbers of Senators and Congresscritters signing the right brief far outnumber the ones signing the one supporting D.C.

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mr surveyor wrote:I like Kay Bailey Hutchinson myself, BUT, I find this extremely troubling and would like a very detailed explaination:


"Hutchison said she's willing to accept some restrictions on the Second Amendment"


anybody else find that to be a bit disconcerting?


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I'm just as concerned about this quote from her statement:
She said she hopes the case will similarly set a standard for how far the district can go in restricting guns without infringing on a person's right to defend themselves in their home.
A person should have that right anywhere they are and not just in their home - especially in the DC area.
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CHL/LEO wrote:
mr surveyor wrote:I like Kay Bailey Hutchinson myself, BUT, I find this extremely troubling and would like a very detailed explaination:


"Hutchison said she's willing to accept some restrictions on the Second Amendment"


anybody else find that to be a bit disconcerting?


surv
I'm just as concerned about this quote from her statement:
She said she hopes the case will similarly set a standard for how far the district can go in restricting guns without infringing on a person's right to defend themselves in their home.
A person should have that right anywhere they are and not just in their home - especially in the DC area.
I wonder how much of that is "taking what you can get" instead of that being the extent of her support for 2A. They are politicians. You know, Politics: Poly meaning many and tics meaning blood sucking parasites.
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seamusTX wrote:
Fifty-five senators and 249 House members have signed the brief ...
:shock:

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The last I heard, Ron Paul had not, but this could have changed.

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Kalrog wrote:
CHL/LEO wrote:
mr surveyor wrote:I like Kay Bailey Hutchinson myself, BUT, I find this extremely troubling and would like a very detailed explaination:


"Hutchison said she's willing to accept some restrictions on the Second Amendment"


anybody else find that to be a bit disconcerting?


surv
I'm just as concerned about this quote from her statement:
She said she hopes the case will similarly set a standard for how far the district can go in restricting guns without infringing on a person's right to defend themselves in their home.
A person should have that right anywhere they are and not just in their home - especially in the DC area.
I wonder how much of that is "taking what you can get" instead of that being the extent of her support for 2A. They are politicians. You know, Politics: Poly meaning many and tics meaning blood sucking parasites.
There are extensive discussions on the Heller case on The High Road and The Firing LIne. Lots of folks are arguing the "we want it all" end of the spectrum, and typically that is where I stand.

That being said, when SCOTUS agreed to hear Heller they defined the questions they would address, and after reading the DC brief barf bag and Hellers classic along with all the amicus briefs, I am convinced that the attorneys know what they are doing and are addressing what needs to be addressed with this particular case.

This case will only deal with DC but can have far reaching implications in Daleystan, Bloombergistan, Kalifornia, and other havens of reasonable restrictions.

These champions of our cause are doing what needs to be done to help us devour the elephant - one bit at a time.

Yes, there are lots of folks who believe in reasonable restrictions. That was the whole point of one of my recent threads. Evidently Sen. Hutchison believes in some reasonable restrictions. I do not.

That does not mean I do not want her in my corner supporting a @A case in front of the Supreme Court.

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