U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- Anti-gun Senator Dianne Feinstein quoted the Supreme Court’s 2008 Heller ruling out of context while questioning Judge Neil Gorsuch during this week’s Judiciary Committee hearings in an attempt to legitimize her gun ban agenda, the Second Amendment Foundation said today.
“It is unfortunate that Sen. Feinstein had to resort to this cheap parlor trick to make it appear that the late Justice Antonin Scalia would be okay with a ban of modern sporting rifles,’ said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “We’ve carefully reviewed her question to Judge Gorsuch and the actual text of the ruling, which was written by Justice Scalia.”
Feinstein posed the following question: “Justice Scalia also wrote that, ‘Weapons that are more useful in military service, M-16 rifles and the like, may be banned’ without infringing on the Second Amendment. Do you agree with that statement that under the Second Amendment weapons that are most useful in military service … may be banned?”
But here is what Scalia actually wrote: “It may be objected that if weapons that are most useful in military service—M-16 rifles and the like—may be banned, then the Second Amendment right is completely detached from the prefatory clause. But as we have said, the conception of the militia at the time of the Second Amendment’s ratification was the body of all citizens capable of military service, who would bring the sorts of lawful weapons that they possessed at home to militia duty. It may well be true today that a militia, to be as effective as militias in the 18th century, would require sophisticated arms that are highly unusual in society at large. Indeed, it may be true that no amount of small arms could be useful against modern-day bombers and tanks. But the fact that modern developments have limited the degree of fit between the prefatory clause and the protected right cannot change our interpretation of the right.”
“It is clear to us that Sen. Feinstein quoted Heller out of context,” Gottlieb stated, “and she was playing ‘Gotcha’ with Judge Gorsuch on the issue of banning the most popular rifle in America today. By trying to paint Judge Gorsuch into a corner that exists only in her mind, Sen. Feinstein did a disservice to the hearings, the Supreme Court’s ruling, and the Constitution, itself.”
About the Second Amendment Foundation:
The Second Amendment Foundation is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 650,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control.
There is no greater poster-child for term limits than Diane. Pelosi is a close second though.
Feinstein, Sanders, Pelosi, and other liberal idiots always try to twist others words to fit there own agendas. It is time to get these stupid idiots out of power and out of Washington cause if we don’t they are going to some how get there way and put us common folks under damn thumbs and some how get rid of our Constitutional Rights. Then we will all get screwed.
If there is justice, a painful death from anal cancer will rot her brain….
This is the same feinstein who’s husband made millions selling semiautomatic black scary rifles…
Why would anyone listen to the Hippocracy coming from her pie hole?
I’m very sure that Judge Gorsuch knows the HELLER decision, word for word, including teh dicta. I’ll bet he also knows the DRED SCOTT, MILLER, CRUISHANK cases as well. He was just too much a gentleman to call Senator moonshine a liar since he does want to be confirmed.
what I wonder is HOW is this demented old hag a senator once more? Proof that the People of California either live in a bubble or are too busy/distracted to bother. To bad their corrupt senatrix remains in a position to bring harm to the entire nation.
Hard to believe that the Feinstein POS would lie…………….isn’t this garbage from California well past her “Sell by date?
Let’s see, Pelose, Boxer, Waters, Finestein all from the same commie camp and each trying to outdo the others with lies, cheating, profiting and gun control. Maybe they are all sisters of a defunct mother. They are the bottom feeders in our AMERICAN society.
Feinstein may,with my blessings,and encouragement, shove her anti-gun,anti-American agenda right up her pancaked made up nose. Thus ends my effort to be respectful and nice. Therefore, pee on you,Feinstein. You want our guns ? Don`t send good men to get them, come yourself.
the Bitch needs to be in jail for acts aginst the American people or firing squad even better.