Hat tip to John Anderson at The Citizens' Journal for identifying this story: Pine Bluff Commercial, "Arkansas' attorney general said Tuesday he will join a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court saying the constitutional right to bear arms extends to individuals, not just members of a state militia.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a lawsuit challenging gun laws enacted by the District of Columbia. AG McDaniel said he would join a Texas brief declaring support for an individual's gun rights. At issue in the D.C. case is to whom gun rights were extended by the Constitution. D.C. officials say their ban on handguns helps reduce gun violence."I believe the Second Amendment confers a Constitutional right to bear arms on individuals, not just on militia members," McDaniel said.The brief is McDaniel's first high-profile entry into the debate over gun control since he was elected attorney general last year.
In his race for the state's top law enforcement office, McDaniel sparred with opponents over gun rights, hunting and the purpose of the Second Amendment. McDaniel faced criticism from Republican nominee Gunner DeLay over his role in a lawsuit following the 1998 Jonesboro school shooting in which four middle-school students and a teacher were killed."McDaniel's father, attorney Bobby McDaniel, sued gun manufacturer Remington Arms. Dustin McDaniel was in law school at the time but said he did some work on the case, which was dismissed in May 2000."
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