Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihu1m.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!ihu1m!bermes From: bermes@ihu1m.UUCP (Terry Bermes) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.rec Subject: Re: Re: Merry Christmas from the NRA Message-ID: <206@ihu1m.UUCP> Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 11:45:37 EST Article-I.D.: ihu1m.206 Posted: Thu Jan 10 11:45:37 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 00:47:46 EST References: <2974@allegra.UUCP> <1912@sun.uucp> <2504@CSL-Vax.ARPA> <1924@sun.uucp> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 24 Xref: watmath net.politics:6724 net.rec:199 Sunny Kirsten writes of the NRA: "It also supports the second ammendment to the US Constitution, which many people seem to forget exists." 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...". The quote above comes from the phamphlet "Handgun Facts" distributed by Handgun Control, Inc. Of course this will probably be immediately discounted by those opposed to handgun control because the information comes from a pro-control (not pro-ban) organization. Terry Bermes