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Justice Dept shifts to individual gun rights stance
The Bush administration reverses four decades of policy by telling the Supreme Court that the Constitution protects an individual right to possess firearms. The Solicitor General argues the right is subject to reasonable restrictions and should not be tested in court now. The shift echoes past remarks by Ashcroft and signals a major change in federal gun-rights interpretation.
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United States
Theodore Olson
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Circuit Court of Appeals
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Timothy Emerson