Re: Silveira DENIED Certiorari

Mike Haas wrote:
> The United States Supreme Court announced this morning that it has
> DENIED the Silveira vs. Lockyer Petition for Certiorari. The Supreme
> Court will not hear the case.
>
> We should all be thankful for this. For reasons set out by
> long-respected RKBA scholars, this case was disaster, now narrowly
> avoided for the most part. See http://www.calgunlaws.com/ and
> http://NRAMembersCouncils.com/ for articles.
>
> RKBA legal experts strongly suggest that those wishing to support
> getting a Second Amendment case before the Supreme Court send their
> money to support a case that does NOT arise in the hostile Ninth
> Circuit or California.  Note that there are two Second Amendment
> cases being litigated in the District of Columbia now, one by the NRA
> and one by CATO Institute.

Clayton Cramer agrees with you and me that we were only wounded by this
case, not killed.

http://www.claytoncramer.com/weblog/blogger.html

We were wounded because this case GOT to the 9th Circuit, thereby allowing
them to write an opinion - with the force of law - that otherwise would not
have been available. Now the California crap is the precedent for the other
states in the 9th Circuit.

Further, when a REAL 2nd Amendment case (one not based on cosmetics) gets to
SCOTUS, the Supreme Court will have to take into account the rulings of the
9th Circuit.