The current coverage system, Chief Justice Roberts wrote, is "based on 40-year-old facts having no logical relationship to the present day".
"But all this had now got to cease," he insisted, "these facts having come to the knowledge of the authorities at Washington, they had sent me there to put an end to them — an absolute end".
Those fictions are more dangerous than fictions contained within a film, because they are latched on to and repeated as facts, having been in a newspaper, in a way that Winterbottom's signposting does not.
He went on to emphasize how very long ago that was, mentioning "40-year-old facts having no logical relation to the present day," and that "history did not end in 1965".
Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, held that the law was "based on 40 year-old facts having no logical relationship to the present day".
Three days later, the full investigation of the facts having been completed to the NRA's satisfaction, Wayne LaPierre, its Executive vice president and CEO, held a press conference.
