Joseph Charles Rickershauser
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U. S. Supreme Court case U.S. v. Miller, 307 U.S. 174 (1939)
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Many interpret the decision as if the SCOTUS had accepted the
Department of Justice's argument. Read their brief, and then the
decision and you will see that Justice McReynolds rejected almost all of it.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court case
Commonwealth v. Davis 369 Mass. 886, 343 N.E.2nd 847 (1976)
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This is the controlling case in Massachusetts regarding the
right to keep and bear arms. Though the text of Article 1 and Article
17 of the Declaration of Rights in the Massachusetts Constitution
seems clear, Judge Kaplan writes that they don't mean what they say.
Chief Justice Warren Burger and the Second Amendment
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A favorite quote by those who believe that there is no right to keep
and bear arms, retired Justice Burger was not a scholar on the subject.
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