Alan Gura and Walter Dellinger Discuss Their Strategies in Heller:
The video is here. Thanks to SCOTUSblog for the link.
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In regards to your program on the Heller ruling I wanted to comment that both Mr. Dellinger and Mr. Guru, for all their research, have several key facts wrong about the history of the 2nd Amendment. This is not surprising as your narrator commented that both sides of the issue used Elliot's notes on the State conventions as sources even though it is now admitted that this source is full of false statements and events. Many of the Heller documents, provided by groups supporting the Cities position, were edited to change the intent or meaning of the information there in to support the prohibition. Further, its clear that the four dissenting justices were given private briefings by the gun control side because of the presence of historical statements in their dissent, or their verbal arguments, that were not found in the supplied Briefs. Thus, this battle of the documents, was in reality a battle over historical truth and the continuing war against histories written for political purposes.