Scalia addresses wild-turkey hunters

Supreme Court justice: Change attitude about use of firearms

Quoted: Scalia addresses wild-turkey hunters Supreme Court justice: Change attitude about use of firearms

- God love him.

Scalia the hunter defends gun rights
Associated Press
2/27/2006

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia fondly remembers carrying a rifle around New York City as a boy and says outdoorsmen should attack the idea that guns are only used for crimes.

An avid outdoorsmen who has hunted with Vice President Cheney, Scalia spoke over the weekend at the National Wild Turkey Federation's annual convention.

"The attitude of people associating guns with nothing but crime, that is what has to be changed," Scalia told the audience of about 2,000.

"I grew up at a time when people were not afraid of people with firearms," Scalia said, noting that as a youth in New York City he was part of a rifle team at the military school he attended.

"I used to travel on the subway from Queens to Manhattan with a rifle," he said. "Could you imagine doing that today in New York City?"

Scalia was criticized in 2004 for hunting ducks with Cheney while the Supreme Court was considering a case involving Cheney's energy task force. This month, a lawyer hunting quail with Cheney in Texas was wounded when he stepped in the way as Cheney fired at a bird.

The nonprofit turkey federation is dedicated to conserving wild turkeys and preserving hunting traditions.


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So when will they overturn Miller and the Commerce Clause?