Word: gunness
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...months JOHN MCCAIN has been the Democrats' favorite co-sponsor on everything from a patient's bill of rights to gun control. TED KENNEDY and JOHN EDWARDS like him so much that they have been urging the maverick to switch sides. Though McCain has declined, he thought about it long enough to prompt a dinner invitation from the President last week. The shift in power only enhances his stature. "This move makes John McCain the de facto Republican leader in the Senate," says a top Republican operative...
...carry a gun for your country, you can hoist a beer...
...Ashcroft and the Second Amendment John Ashcroft's letter to the National Rifle Association saying that the Constitution protects individual gun ownership rights prompted a frantic call from a U.S. Attorney's office in Texas to Department of Justice headquarters at 10th & Pennsylvania. The Attorney General's position isn't in sync with court rulings over the last six decades, including a 1939 Supreme Court decision, holding that the Second Amendment right applies to the states, rather than individuals...
...Furthermore, lawyers in the department's criminal division, which handles gun crimes, weren't given a heads-up that the reversal in policy was coming. Nor were federal prosecutors in Texas, who have handled the one recent case in which the defendant has argued that his Second Amendment rights were violated when he was charged for possessing a small arsenal of pistols and semi-automatic weapons while under a restraining order taken out by his wife...
...that case, a federal judge in Lubbock bought the argument and dismissed the gun charges against defendant Timothy Joe Emerson, a doctor. The government is awaiting a decision of its appeal. If this decision too goes against the government - which seems unlikely, given the bulk of precedent favoring the feds' position - the question is now whether the Ashcroft Justice Department would try to take the case to the Supreme Court or simply let it drop. Also at issue is whether Ashcroft's letter, which was read aloud by an NRA official at the group's convention in Kansas City, will...