Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ariel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!ariel!norm From: norm@ariel.UUCP (N.ANDREWS) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Constitutional rights and bearing arms Message-ID: <827@ariel.UUCP> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 14:22:56 EST Article-I.D.: ariel.827 Posted: Fri Jan 11 14:22:56 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 06:23:04 EST References: <206@ihu1m.UUCP> Organization: AT&T-ISL, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 34 > > However, the second amendment, in its entirety, reads: > > "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." > > This hardly seems to support a private citizen's claim of the right to >own a handgun. As a matter of fact on October 3, 1983, the Supreme Court >refused to overturn a handgun law in Morton Grove, Illinois. The Supreme >Court let stand a Court of Appeals ruling which stated,"....possession >of handguns by individuals is not part of the right to keep and bear arms...". > > Terry Bermes > The framers of the Constitution, at the time the bill of rights (first 10 amendments) was adopted, were worried that the enumeration of certain rights by the bill of rights might seem to imply that rights not enumerated in the Constitution might be trampled. In an attempt to prevent that from happening, one of the amendments they included with the bill of rights was the following: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." The right to keep and bear arms is one of those being kept by the people.... Humorlessly, Norm Andrews AT&T Information Systems Mail Station HO1C325 Crawfords Corner Road Holmdel, New Jersey 07733 vax135!ariel!norm (201) 834-3685