Posted March 23, 2017 8:51 am by Comments

By Chris Eger

Judge Neil Gorsuch returned to several issues on his third day of hearings in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday (Photo: Jack Gruber/USA Today)
Judge Neil Gorsuch on Wednesday found himself again on the receiving end of questions concerning gun rights during the third day of hearings to be an associate justice on the Supreme Court.
In just over 10-hours in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Colorado native covered a number of topics including — in a reprisal of Tuesday’s conversation on a past Supreme Court gun rights precedent– the 2008 Heller case.
Connecticut Democrat U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal broached the topic of the Second Amendment while referencing the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting that occurred in his state. Moving on to a selection of the late Justice Scalia’s remarks in the Heller case, the Connecticut lawmaker queried Gorsuch about gun control.
“He (Scalia) wrote that the Second Amendment is ‘not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever for any purpose,’” said Blumenthal. “That, I would read as a statement that the Second Amendment is not absolute. Would you agree?”
Gorsuch replied by saying the Heller ruling protected guns in common use, “not every weapon or

Source: Guns.com

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