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Please keep it up. I don't find any of this easy to digest and it takes me a couple of days to actually read and understand some of these articles. Your postings on this is very important and are treasured by me.Kalrog wrote:I was starting to wonder if anyone else was interested in this (getting no responses). I'll keep watching then.stevie_d_64 wrote:First, Kalrog, you be doing Yeoman's work here keeping up with this one! Thanks!!!
Thanks, I had seen that others who were more knowledgeable than me that it mattered. But your post was the only thing I've seen that explained why.Kalrog wrote:It would expand the options of what SCOTUS could rule on. As it is, the only thing Heller had standing in was the handgun ban. Some of the others had sued for other parts of the ban (long guns need to be unloaded and inoperable). So if the others are granted standing, SCOTUS could rule on different aspects of the ban if it wanted to. I don't think this is as important as the Heller part of it, but I could easily see a ruling that says handguns are legal, but no ruling on the functionality part of it.
So it matters, but not as much as it could. Any lawyers out there understand it differently than I do?