Supreme Court Sound Bites

Sound Bite: Facts of the case. The National Firearms Act, as applied to one indicted for transporting in interstate commerce a 12-gauge shotgun, with a barrel less than 18 inches long, without having registered it, and without having in his possession a stamp-affixed written order for it, as required by the Act.

Sound Bite: Holding Not unconstitutional as an invasion of the reserved powers of the States.  Not violative of the Second Amendment of the Federal Constitution. The Court cannot take judicial notice, that a shotgun having a barrel less than 18 inches long, has today any reasonable relation to the preservation or efficiency of a well[...]