Gun Control and the Supreme Term Paper

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In this case it was the U.S. Vs. Miller in which the court had to rule on whether a sawed off shotgun has a reasonable relationship in the preservation of a well regulated militia (Gun Politics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_the_United_States).

As recently as 2002, the Supreme Court dealt with issues of gun control with regard to felons owning them. In that decision the court ruled that no agency or state can allow a convicted felon to ever own a firearm for any reason.

By a unanimous vote, the nine justices held that a federal district court lacked the authority to order Texas gun dealer Thomas Lamar Bean's firearms privileges restored after the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms declined to consider his request because Congress had refused to give it money to do so (Lane, 2002).
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The concept of the second amendment is at the core of any Supreme Court hearing with regard to gun control. Regardless of the number of gun deaths in America each year, or how the various political parties feel about the issue the bottom line for the Supreme Court is whether or not the constitution of the United States and the second amendment provides for the bearing of arms by individuals, and whether or not individual states that decide to implement gun control are violating the constitution. So far the court has ruled that individual states have the right to interpret the constitution and base their gun control decisions on that interpretation......

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