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From: firearmsregprof-boun...@lists.ucla.edu
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Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 3:45 PM
To: jol...@gw.hamline.edu; firearmsregprof@lists.ucla.edu
Subject: Re: Background on Heller II
Justice Scalia’s majority
In gun cases, rationality has always been a difficult hurdle for judges,
state or federal. Steve, good luck in the appeal. Joe
Professor Joseph Olson, J.D., LL.M. o- 651-523-2142
Hamline University School of Law f- 651-523-2236
St. Paul, MN 55113-1235
Justice Scalia’s majority opinion in Heller took a categorical approach and
held the ban to be unconstitutional as a matter of law, without regard to
any statistics about the effectiveness of “gun laws.” It was Breyer’s
dissent that advocates the battle of statistics in which the government
