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...Bob Reid, SEA BRIGHT...
Polls on guns are hotly contested. But national majorities have consistently opposed sweeping bans, however rare, on handguns while supporting the more moderate gun-control measures that are common in many states--including waiting periods and background checks. That's why the Parker litigation, spearheaded by Bob Levy of the libertarian Cato Institute, seems like the perfect Supreme Court test case for gun-rights supporters. "We picked the D.C. law because it is so extreme," Levy told me. Now that Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has been replaced by Samuel Alito, Levy is "cautiously optimistic" of victory next June...
...rejects the idea that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms, it could provoke a backlash in the opposite direction. "If the court upholds the D.C. handgun ban, it would be a real tsunami, a very energizing event for Second Amendment enthusiasts," says former Republican Congressman Bob Barr of Georgia and N.R.A. board member. "It would highlight the importance of maintaining the presidency to get good Second Amendment judges." In other words, when they go to war before the Supreme Court, both gun-rights and gun-control advocates should be careful what they wish...
...election season, considering she was just reelected to a second term last fall. Clinton's Senate record - and particularly the skill she has shown working across party lines - has been her answer to those who say she is too polarizing to be elected. But as former majority leader Bob Dole and others have learned, the chamber isn't an ideal base from which to run a Presidential campaign...
Bernstein: "I think what Bob means is that ordinarily, what was the procedure...