Legal Eagles Assemble - Need 2A cases/journals

[seamusTX]

Linguistic anaylsis of the second amendment: http://www.firearmsandliberty.com/unabridged.2nd.html

- Jim

[srothstein]

I'll also bring up the point of police summoning aid. I need to find a news article or something with an example though, like citizens being called to help in manhunts. I've heard a story here I think of someone receiving a call to get their rifle and participate in a manhunt. Anyone have a citation laying around?

edit:...is it necessary/how do you cite state law properly

Probably the most famous local case of police summoning aid is the Charles Whitaker/UT tower shooting. It was locals with their hunting rifles that helped keep him pinned down, and a non-leo citizen went up the tower to help the officer end the spree, IIRC. Another more recent case would be the North Hollywood Bank Robbery shoot-out where the police had to go borrow rifles from the local gun shops. If there were no locals with guns or the right to guns, the gun shops would not be there either.

As late as Monday, 12-03-2007, Austin PD was asking for citizen help in finding a missing alzheimer patient, though no firearms were needed for it.


From the Government Code:

311.004. CITATION OF CODES. A code may be cited by its
name preceded by the specific part concerned. Examples of
citations are:
(1) Title 1, Business & Commerce Code;
(2) Chapter 5, Business & Commerce Code;
(3) Section 9.304, Business & Commerce Code;
(4) Section 15.06(a), Business & Commerce Code; and
(5) Section 17.18(b)(1)(B)(ii), Business & Commerce Code.