[TheRealThing]

I keep coming back to the FACT that the historicity of the 2nd Amendment is not "any gun, any person, any time." That is a "Antonin come lately" reading.

If there were a baseball team tagged the "EitherOrs," you'd be a star. A citizen's right to protect his or her family, property is not in peril from sensible, enforceable gun laws.

My guess is emergency personnel have an interest in knowing if they are working in a gun-rich environment. I just don't buy the "the Feds will do a bum rush gun grab" NRA propoganda line.

You are wrong. Completely wrong.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/29...15969.html
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Sunday that there are “undoubtedly” limits to a person’s right to bear arms under the Second Amendment, but that future court cases will have to decide where to draw the line.


During an appearance on “Fox News Sunday,” Scalia was asked whether lawmakers have the right to ban high-capacity gun magazines without violating a person’s constitutional right to bear arms. The question comes less than two weeks after the Colorado shooting massacre that left 12 dead and dozens more injured — and at a time when neither President Barack Obama nor Congress appear willing to touch the issue of gun control.


“We’ll see,” Scalia said, suggesting that future court cases will determine what limitations on modern-day weapons are permissible.


“Some undoubtedly are [permissible] because there were some that were acknowledged at the time” the Constitution was written, Scalia said. He cited a practice from that era known as “frighting,” where people “carried around a really horrible weapon just to scare people, like a head axe or something. That was, I believe, a misdemeanor.”

“So yes, there are some limitations that can be imposed,” Scalia said. “What they are will depend on what the society understood were reasonable limitations at the time.”

The conservative justice notably authored the Supreme Court’s 2008 opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller, which ruled that the Second Amendment protects a person’s right to bear arms and struck down a D.C. ban on handguns. The court also ruled, though, that “the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited.”



Now lets see you gas your way out of that one.