Shoot ‘Em While You Got ‘Em
Obama’s Clintonian AG’s mendacious yet nakedly anti-gun ownership agenda, via Volokh:
Earlier this year, Eric Holder–along with Janet Reno and several other former officials from the Clinton Department of Justice–co-signed an amicus brief in District of Columbia v. Heller. The brief was filed in support of DC’s ban on all handguns, and ban on the use of any firearm for self-defense in the home. The brief argued that the Second Amendment is a “collective” right, not an individual one, and asserted that belief in the collective right had been the consistent policy of the U.S. Department of Justice since the FDR administration. A brief filed by some other former DOJ officials (including several Attorneys General, and Stuart Gerson, who was Acting Attorney General until Janet Reno was confirmed) took issue with the Reno-Holder brief’s characterization of DOJ’s viewpoint.
But at the least, the Reno-Holder brief accurately expressed the position of the Department of Justice when Janet Reno was Attorney General and Eric Holder was Deputy Attorney General. At the oral argument before the Fifth Circuit in United States v. Emerson, the Assistant U.S. Attorney told the panel that the Second Amendment was no barrier to gun confiscation, not even of the confiscation of guns from on-duty National Guardsmen.
The rest here.
Meanwhile, in outgoing AG affairs, Malkin has the updates on Mukasey being carried out, with the text of the speech he was delivering on what Bush’s much-battered DOJ accomplished in its war on gun ownership … and bomb ownership … by jihadis.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:13 am on Friday, November 21, 2008
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November 21st, 2008 at 2:04 pm
I always supported being licensed to own a gun. Now I’m wondering if that was wise.