MS: AG heading into 2nd Amendment battle
Jim Craig at IpseBlogit takes note of MS Attorney General Jim Hood entering into the upcoming2nd Amendment issues before the U.S. Supreme Court:
This coming Monday, October 5, the United States Supreme Court begins its October 2009 Term. As always, the Court will issue its largest set of rulings (called “grants of certiorari”) which decide the cases it will hear in the coming months.
One of the most high-profile sets of cases involves the Second Amendment. The Heller case, in which the Court decided that the Second Amendment did secure an individual right to bear arms, invalidated an ordinance in the District of Columbia. But Heller does not necessarily mean that the State of Mississippi (or California, or New York) cannot pass strict gun control statutes.
The post includes links to several filed documents.