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PUBLISHED 1/24/08 ---- Eighteen elected prosecutors, including district attorneys who represent New York, Boston, Dallas, Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit, San Diego, San Francisco, Oakland and Atlanta, have posed an interesting argument before the U.S. Supreme Court. What if reversing Washington, D.C.’s controversial handgun ban — a move the nation’s highest court will start to consider in March — had a previously unforeseen consequence? What if, by recognizing a broad individual right to gun ownership, the court might be endangering state and local firearms laws? A federal appeals court ruled last March that Washington’s handgun ban violated the Second Amendment, the first time a gun-control law had been struck down on that basis. The Supreme Court will hear arguments starting in about six weeks on the constitutionality of the ban. In arguments filed Jan. 11, the 18 prosecutors, led by Robert Morgenthau of New York, said the Supreme Court ruling...
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