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Will pro-gun commentators assail politicians who dis the Second Amendment rights of former felons?

By Douglas A. Berman

In the wake of pro-gun talk on the campaign trail, commentators are noting the new eagerness of Democratic candidates to embrace the Second Amendment.  For example, John McCormack has this Weekly Standard piece titled "We're All Gun Nuts Now: The Democrats sidle up to the Second Amendment," and David Kopel has this Townhall piece titled "Gun Owners For Hillary?".  Both commentators are justifiably suspect about the Democrats candidates true views on the Second Amendment: McCormick notes that "both contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination [are] evading the gun control issue [before the Supreme Court in Heller] as if it were sniper fire"; Kopel asserts that "Senator Clinton no more deserves gun-owner votes than Lord Voldemort deserves the Muggle vote...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 11, 2008 (boomark / email).