Feinstein Quoted Scalia Out of Context to Push Agenda

By AmmoLand Editor Duncan Johnson

U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- Anti-gun Senator Dianne Feinstein quoted the Supreme Court’s 2008 Heller ruling out of context while questioning Judge Neil Gorsuch during this week’s Judiciary Committee hearings in an attempt to legitimize her gun ban agenda, the Second Amendment Foundation said today.

“It is unfortunate that Sen. Feinstein had to resort to this cheap parlor trick to make it appear that the late Justice Antonin Scalia would be okay with a ban of modern sporting rifles,’ said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “We’ve carefully reviewed her question to Judge Gorsuch and the actual text of the ruling, which was written by Justice Scalia.”

Feinstein posed the following question: “Justice Scalia also wrote that, ‘Weapons that are more useful in military service, M-16 rifles and the like, may be banned’ without infringing on the Second Amendment. Do you agree with that statement that under the Second Amendment weapons that are most useful in military service … may be banned?”

But here is what Scalia actually wrote: “It may be objected that if weapons that are most useful in military service—M-16 rifles and the like—may be banned, then …Read the Rest

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