NRA, onetime ally feud over next big guns case to go before Supreme Court

Robert Barnes
Washington Post
February 9, 2010

[efoods]The National Rifle Association was on the outside looking in when the Supreme Court handed gun rights activists a landmark victory in 2008.

After the court ruled that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to gun ownership and that the District’s handgun ban was unconstitutional, it was an upstart band of libertarian lawyers that celebrated on the marble steps and received the glory for the breakthrough decision.

The NRA, the nation’s premier and most powerful gun rights group, has worked hard not to be in that position again. And because of an unusual intervention recently by the justices, its attorney will be in the mix when the court considers the next big guns case next month.

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This article was posted: Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 11:51 am

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