Re: Denied Illinois FOID card

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The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Americans have a constitutional right
to keep guns in their homes for self-defense, the justices' first major
pronouncement on gun control in U.S. history. Prooves FOID Cards violate a
persons rights.

On 9/28/07, friend of NRA wrote:
>> On 9/28/07, DILLER wrote in part:
>
>> Foid cards in my opinion violate the United States Constitution. You
>> have a right to bare arms and shall not be infringed; it says nothing
>> about firearm identification cards, or any other requirement. Stop them
>> from dismantling the Constitution.
>
> The applicability of the Second Amendment is often misunderstood. Its
> guarantee applies only to the federal government not to state government.
> Over the years, much of the US Constitution has been made applicable to
> the states by the terms of the 14th Amendment, but still, only certain
> parts of it apply to states and the 2nd Amendment is one part that does
> not apply to states. For example, the 5th Amendment is now applicable to
> the states except for the part where it says "No person shall be held to
> answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment
> or indictment of a Grand Jury[.]" That part does not apply to the
> states. The 5th Amendment has been applied to states piece by piece over
> the last 150 years. Believe it or not, it was not until 1969 that the
> double jeopardy clause of the 5th Amendment was applied to state trials by
> the decision in Benton v. Maryland, 395 U.S. 784, and the self-
> incrimination clause did not apply to state trials until the early
> twentieth century. Likewise, the first sentence of the 7th Amendment
> says "In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed
> twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved[.]" That
> does not apply to states. As I said above; none of the 2nd Amendment
> applies to states. Don't confuse your federal US constitutional rights
> with your rights under state law regarding firearms.
>
> I make no judgment about your opinion on gun control but want to point out
> that the US Constitution does not forbid any type of gun control by the
> states, thus, the Illinois FOID card can not be a violation of the 2nd
> Amendment. The framers of the Constitution were concerned that the
> federal government not take away the right to bear arms from the citizen
> militias created by the states. They were not at all concerned at the
> time the 2nd Amendment was written about state gun control. It is
> unlikely that the Supreme Court will ever hold that the 2nd Amendment
> applies to states.