Re: Silveira DENIED Certiorari

"Mike Haas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: 

> 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. 
> 
> Mike Haas

BTW, Reuters says the NRA supported this appeal:

http://news.findlaw.com/politics/s/20031201/courtgunsdc.html

[begin excerpt]

 California enacted the nation's most sweeping assault 
weapons ban in 1999, amending legislation adopted 10 years 
earlier. The state legislature amended the law to ban assault 
weapons based on a host of features, instead of specific 
makes and models.

A group of individuals who own assault weapons or want to buy 
them challenged the law, saying it violated the Second 
Amendment and other constitutional rights.

A federal judge dismissed the constitutional claims, and the 
appeals court agreed in upholding the law.

The appeals court said the Second Amendment protected the gun 
rights of militias, not individuals. The Second Amendment 
states: "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."

Gary Gorski, an attorney for those challenging the law, 
appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, saying the Constitution 
protects the rights of individuals to keep and bear arms 
without the threat of state confiscation or compulsory 
registration.

The National Rifle Association supported the appeal. 

[end excerpt]

Is that right, Mike?


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