re: #163 Anymouse

Autos were repeatedly found under ancient common law (anything you can push, pull, or drag over the landscape), the Right to Travel (IX Amendment), and X Amendment (left to the people). State after state had every regulation they wrote struck down from number plates to tests to speed limits to drivers’ licenses as unconstitutional.

If you read the document, which is the history of the AAA and the American Wheelman’s Association, fighting any auto regulations whatsoever, they were just as powerful and successful as the NRA for over forty years. It was not until the 1930’s they started losing cases, and they still won them occasionally until the 1950’s.

At that point, the courts finally started ruling the Government has an absolute right to protect public safety.

I did read that article. It was very interesting, and thanks for the link. However, I stand by my original point that there was no obstacle to automobile regulation that was nearly as formidable as the second amendment.