said by dogma :

Well, they can have my Sig Sauer, when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.

said by CatSnak :

I agree about registering the guns. My pistols are registerd but my rifles aren't (I've had them for years before I moved to CA).

said by CatSnak :

I agree about registering the guns. My pistols are registered but my rifles aren't (I've had them for years before I moved to CA). It's kind of hard though to conceal a rifle. And when I am carrying either of my pistols they are always in plain site unless being properly transported (in a locked case out of reach) in my truck.

said by MotherNature :

The Framer's definition of a "militia" was an armed citizenry, not some organized state militia. Keep in mind what is always the first thing to happen when before a country is taken over by tyrants: the people are disarmed.

Any decision that bolsters our 2nd Amendment rights is fine with me. Maybe the next target can be our uber-liberal gun grabbing little friends to the North in Friscograd.

said by dogma :

The SCOTUS reaffirmed the right for individuals to own firearms. Seems like it maintains States rights to regulate firearms...just not ban them altogether like the D.of C. did.

Here in California, Mayor Vi wants to ban .50-caliber & .45-caliber, military-style ammunition; licensing ammunition vendors; requiring anyone making ammunition purchases to do so in person; requiring gun-store owners to make regular gun inventories and report to local law enforcement; and outlawing installation of secret gun compartments in vehicles. All in an effort to battle gangs.

Well, they can have my Sig Sauer, when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.

said by TheRul :

...As a non gun owner, I think this is a great ruling. On the other hand, I think the right of owning a gun should come with the responsibility to 1. register their guns (when I buy my Howitzer I will register it and place it proudly on my front yard for all of my daughters dates to see) and 2. prove that they know how and when to use them and store them.
I see this like I see parenthood...

said by nirvansk815 :

Yet another database that holds millions of records? Our reliance on computers is getting deeper by the second. Not that it is necessarily a bad thing, but what would happen if this was hacked and records changed? Then it would be just a waste of storage space in some datacenter somewhere.

How would one show proof of your 'gun knowledge'? It sounds great in theory, but I can't think of any practical and meaningful ways to implement it.

I agree with your views on parenthood... it seems smart, educated, and loving parents are hard to come by these days.

said by nirvansk815 :

I agree with your views on parenthood... it seems smart, educated, and loving parents are hard to come by these days.

said by sholling :

This essentially overturns the 9th Circus (not a typo) ruling that the 2nd Amendment is a collective right and not an individual right. That 9th Circus ruling has been the basis for upholding most of the state's draconian gun laws. My reading of the entire majority opinion leads me to believe that the state ban on military style weapons cannot stand. And my reading also leads me to believe that our commissars will have to make a choice between the shall issue concealed carry laws favored by forty plus states or open carry. That's because the right of citizens to bare arms was reaffirmed to mean carry in the majority discussion.

Fear not, our commissars will work tirelessly to find ways to get around the your rights, just as they have marginalized your vote. We can also count on the 9th Circus to ignore Heller to the best of their ability. Our own pistol packing Dianne Feinstein is very angry that the justices believe that constitutional rights apply to the people and not just the politically powerful such as herself. I think that we can count on her to redouble her efforts to shutdown all of those on talk radio that oppose her will.

With the exception of evil looking rifles California has never required registration of rifles. When you go in the store to buy a rifle all they do is run your ID for a background check. They do not register the rifle or report the serial number to the state.

said by CatSnak :

You can open carry just about anywhere