Bloomberg-Supported Gun ‘News’ Feeds False Narrative that Heller was Revisionist

By David Codrea

U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- “The National Rifle Association, and its lawyers, draw a line straight from the founding fathers to the modern ‘good guy with a gun,’” The Trace writes Thursday. “In their framing, people who arm themselves with lethal weapons to defend themselves, their families, and their communities do so with the blessing of the Constitution, as evidenced by the meaning of the Second Amendment.

“But that understanding of the Second Amendment was enshrined by the courts only recently,” the “report” claims. It’s referring, of course, to District of Columbia v. Heller, and the failed gun-grabber contention that an individual rights “interpretation” of the Second Amendment is a modern fiction without basis in prior understanding and legal opinions.

It’s hardly surprising to see this tack taken. As a “news organization” that brays loudly about its “editorial independence” that just happens to be …Read the Rest

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