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The SCOTUS and pretty much every federal appeals court have been very consistent in the belief that the Second Amendment did not confer an individual right up until the Heller case.
The language used in the brief prepared by the Holder DOJ has been used by numerous administrations regardless of party, go look up the briefs prepared by John Ashcroft for Emerson, Silveiri and Lamar Bean.
The context of this thread is that the Obama administration and Eric Holder in particular represent a radical departure from an established course, but the facts don't support this at all. Remarkably the Administration has done little if anything to curb the rights of gun owners even when the Democrats had a majority in Congress.
Holder seems to advocate more restrictive gun measures to help prevent crime, and I think a lot of people would agree with this. Given that the Heller decision was a close 5 to 4 it would seem as though some well read justices do as well.
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