Last Thursday, Judge Carlton Reeves of the Southern District of Mississippi charted a different course: He proposed appointing a historian to help him “identify and sift through authoritative sources on founding-era firearms restrictions” to decide the constitutionality of a federal law barring felons from possessing firearms. [More]
And not just felons!
The perception that free blacks were sympathetic to the plight of their enslaved brothers, and the dangerous example that “a Negro could be free” also caused the slave states to pass laws designed to disarm all blacks, both slave and free.
Who does the Obama appointment have in mind? Carl Bogus and Michael Bellesiles?
Figures the anti-gun fascists at Slate are all giddy over this.
Hey, at least Reeves isn’t starting the clock at the Fourteenth Amendment.
[Via Remarks]
