and that was in the case that perhaps you're familiar with, the meloni versus quomo. it did not apply to the cities and states but merely to the federal government. for any law student of a federal judge to take that kind of cramped and restricted view of a basic civil liberty in our bill of rights is troubling indeed. so these are -- again, i agree with senator hatch that in fairness to the nominee, we are highlighting issues of concern to us to give her time to prepare for the questions that we expect to ask her and we look forward to that hearing on the 13th and her candid responses to the questions about these important issues. >> on the meloni case, it was merely standing for the proposition that the supreme court in heller did not overrule the 1890s case which said that the second amendment didn't apply to the states and that because in heller they specifically said they were doing that, this court was following the supreme court precedent which is how the seventh circuit came in? >> i would say if, in fact, the rights of the second amendment apply to each and e