TREASON AT THE 9th CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS



By Dave Champion



(Los Angeles) On Feb 18, 2003, the U.S. 9th Circuit Appeals Court handed down its decision in the case of Nordyke v. King, No. 99-17551, D.C. No. CV-99-04389-MJJ. [Decision by Circuit Judges, Arthur L. Alarcón, Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain and Ronald M. Gould.]

The following two paragraphs are quotes from the Court’s decision:


“The ‘individual rights’ view advocated by Nordyke has enjoyed recent widespread academic endorsement. See, e.g., Sanford Levinson, The Embarrassing Second Amendment, 99 Yale L.J. 637 (1989); Eugene Volokh, The Commonplace Second Amendment, 73 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 793 (199. In addition, Nordyke finds support for the individual rights interpretation from our sister circuit’s recent holding in United States v. Emerson, 270 F.3d 203 (5th Cir. 2001), that the Second Amendment ‘protects the right of individuals, including those not then actually a member of any militia or engaged in active military service or training, to privately possess and bear their own firearms.’ Id. at 260.â€