Here's my favor a ramp for the day excerpted from our podcast which you can find over at Tom Harbin.

Paul Woodinville, Washington. Hey Paul, what's on your mind today?

Tom, uh, uh, uh, something occurred to me about the second amendment

the supreme court decisions

uh...

pre-heel it seventeen six and nineteen eighty

there were really only three cases in the Supreme Court that these dates are important.

In 1876, the Morrison-Wate court in Chief Justice Morrison-Wate found in a case called the United States versus Crookshank that the Second Amendment applied only to the federal government.

Actually, the first and second amendment

were only meant to restrict the powers of the federal government.

In 1939, in the United States versus Miller upheld the National Firearms Act and that

which banned machine guns the ultra-conservative James Clark McQuenolds saying a restricting gun such conservative of the first one of the second amendment

in nineteen eighty in the louis versus the united states

chief justice warrant burger upheld the nineteen seventy five

uh... firearms control act and that's the important part. It was in 2002 that the Cato

Institute trumped up so to speak a lawsuit to take the court to overturn the 1975 Firearms Control Act

and that's what led to Heller versus DC. The Cato Institute went out searching for plaintiffs. They found six of them.

Ultimately only one Heller was found to have standing.

But the point is that we talk about it, including Sheriff Mack,

they're talking about, we always hear about the original intent

of the founding fathers, the Second Amendment in Scalia's decision in particular,

McDonald versus Chicago because in Heller found an individual right where the

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