From: Seth Adam Eliot <[se 08] at [andrew.cmu.edu]>
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Fwd: Federal law barring guns near schools is constitutional
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1993 11:51:08 -0500

[Note that, in another circuit, it was ruled *unconstitutional*. -- Jerry]

Subject: Federal law barring guns near schools is constitutional
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 93 15:43:05 PST

	SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -- A federal appeals court ruled unanimously
Tuesday that U.S. law prohibiting the possession of guns within 1,000
feet of school buildings does not violate the Constitution.
	The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decided the Gun Free School
Zone Act of 1993 was a valid exercise of congressional authority under
the Commerce Clause.
	The ruling upheld the conviction of Ray Harold Edwards III, who was
arrested with a sawed-off shotgun at Grant Union High School in
Sacramento, Calif., in 1991.
	Edwards had argued Congress did not have the authority to regulate
gun possession because it did not involve interstate commerce.
	But the appeals court relied on a prior ruling that Congress could
regulate gun possession because gun-related violence had an adverse
affect on the national economy.


  Brett Philips      [bp 08] at [andrew.cmu.edu]         
  (412) 268-8797     Carnegie Mellon University

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