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<blockquote data-quote="Hobbes" data-source="post: 1857493" data-attributes="member: 3371"><p>Justice Antonin Scalia, one of the Supreme Court's most vocal and conservative justices, said on Sunday that the Second Amendment leaves room for U.S. legislatures to regulate guns, including menacing hand-held weapons.</p><p></p><p> "It will have to be decided in future cases," Scalia said on <em>Fox News Sunday</em>. But there were legal precedents from the days of the Founding Fathers that banned frightening weapons which a constitutional originalist like himself must recognize. There were also "locational limitations" on where weapons could be carried, the justice noted.</p><p></p><p>When asked if that kind of precedent would apply to assault weapons, or 100-round ammunition magazines like those used in the recent Colorado movie theater massacre, Scalia declined to speculate. "We'll see," he said. '"It will have to be decided." </p><p>As an originalist scholar, Scalia looks to the text of the Constitutionwhich confirms the right to bear armsbut also the context of 18[SUP]th[/SUP]-century history. They had some limitations on the nature of arms that could be borne," he told host Chris Wallace.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/scalia-guns-may-be-regulated-20120729" target="_blank">http://www.nationaljournal.com/scalia-guns-may-be-regulated-20120729</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>I bout fell out of my chair when I saw his interview with Chris Wallace this morning.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hobbes, post: 1857493, member: 3371"] Justice Antonin Scalia, one of the Supreme Court's most vocal and conservative justices, said on Sunday that the Second Amendment leaves room for U.S. legislatures to regulate guns, including menacing hand-held weapons. "It will have to be decided in future cases," Scalia said on [I]Fox News Sunday[/I]. But there were legal precedents from the days of the Founding Fathers that banned frightening weapons which a constitutional originalist like himself must recognize. There were also "locational limitations" on where weapons could be carried, the justice noted. When asked if that kind of precedent would apply to assault weapons, or 100-round ammunition magazines like those used in the recent Colorado movie theater massacre, Scalia declined to speculate. "We'll see," he said. '"It will have to be decided." As an originalist scholar, Scalia looks to the text of the Constitutionwhich confirms the right to bear armsbut also the context of 18[SUP]th[/SUP]-century history. They had some limitations on the nature of arms that could be borne," he told host Chris Wallace. [URL]http://www.nationaljournal.com/scalia-guns-may-be-regulated-20120729[/URL] I bout fell out of my chair when I saw his interview with Chris Wallace this morning. [/QUOTE]
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