They're just two of the 55 Senators who signed an amicus brief on the D.C. gun ban before the Supreme Court.
The Washington Post reports:
"This court should give due deference to the repeated findings over different historical epochs by Congress, a co-equal branch of government, that the amendment guarantees the personal right to possess firearms," their brief contends.
"The District's prohibitions on mere possession by law-abiding persons of handguns in the home and having usable firearms there are unreasonable."
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All Senate Republicans except three -- Virginia's maverick Sen. John W. Warner was one of the missing -- signed on to the brief. Nine Democratic senators -- Virginia's other maverick, Sen. James Webb was among them -- joined the effort. The total was 55 senators and 250 House members, 68 of whom were Democrats.
Webb campaigned in 2006 as a strong supporter of the Second Amendment. Warner said in a statement he stayed out of the case because of respect for home rule.
"While the District of Columbia is not a state, it operates under a framework of laws enacted by the Congress which gives its elected leaders the duty to advocate the positions and interest of its citizens before the federal judiciary," he said.
As neither Sens. Obama nor Clinton signed the brief, NRO's Jim Geraghty sees this as
"One more major contrast between the expected Republican nominee and either of the potential Democratic nominees.."
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