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The Second Amendment - not there yet!
2008-07-03 14:03:00 While most gun enthusiasts are rejoicing over the Supreme Court?s ruling over the meaning of the Second Amendment, others are waiting for the other shoe to drop. The court ruled that the amendment protects the individual?s right to bear arms. At the same time, the ruling also made references to gun rights still reserved by ...
Supreme Court Decision on Second Amendment D.C. v. Heller
2008-06-26 22:02:00 President Bush Pleased by Supreme Court Decision on Second AmendmentThe President strongly agrees with the Supreme Court's historic decision today that the Second Amendment protects the individual right of Americans to keep and bear arms. This has been the Administration's long-held view. The President is also pleased that the Court concluded that the DC firearm laws violate that right. For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary June 26, 2008 RELATED:District of Columbia v. Heller - District of Columbia v. Heller, a gun law case, full background Supreme Court Oral Argument: D.C. v. Heller (March 18, 2008), audio in real media format, running time 1:37:50Supreme Court Briefs to District of Columbia v. Heller Merits briefs, Amicus briefs.2nd Amendment Ruling - audio in real media format Supreme Court StakeoutDC v. Heller Decision - Full decision in PDF formatTags: District of Columbia v. Heller and Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution or The Right to Bear Arms and th...
On the Second Amendment, Don?t Believe Obama!
2008-06-07 03:06:00 The presidential primary season is finally over, and it is now time for gun owners to take a careful look at just where apparent nominee Barack Obama stands on issues related to the Second Amendment.
By: Gun News
More Proof That Americans Believe the Second Amendment Guarantees an Indivi
2008-06-07 03:06:00 Once again confirming what we already know, a recent Harris poll (taken May 5,-May 12, 2008) found that, by a margin of more than two-to-one, U.S. adults believe that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual?s Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
By: Gun News
Does the Second Amendment Provide the Right to Bear Arms? U.S. Adults Think
2008-06-05 02:52:00 In anticipation of the U.S. Supreme Court decision concerning the Second Amendment expected at some point this month, The Harris Poll® finds that by a margin of over two to one, more U.S. adults believe that the Second Amendment supports an individual?s right to bear arms.
By: Gun News
Does the Second Amendment Provide the Right to Bear Arms? U.S. Adults Think
2008-06-03 17:25:00 In anticipation of the U.S. Supreme Court decision concerning the Second Amendment expected at some point this month, The Harris Poll® finds that by a margin of over two to one, more U.S. adults believe that the Second Amendment supports an individual?s right to bear arms.
By: Gun News
?I carry a gun for the same reason I wear a seatbelt?
2008-05-16 14:15:00 It isn't that gun owners wants to use the gun they carry, just like no one ever wants to use the seat belt they fasten in their car. But, as I have said over and over, it is better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it.
Not Content With Crushing Second Amendment, Bloomberg Disregards The First
2008-05-10 04:12:00 A story in today?s New York Sun, (http://www2.nysun.com/new-york-/gag-on-2nd-amendment-is-citys--aim-in-guns-suit/) demonstrates that gun-hating Mayor Michael Bloomberg?s disdain for the Constitution isn?t just limited to his abhorrence of the Second Amendment.
By: Gun News
Important Second Amendment Measures Pass Missouri House!
2008-05-01 12:53:00 This week the Missouri House of Representatives passed both House Bill 1383 and House Bill 2034.
By: Gun News
California Gun Owners: Beware
2008-04-29 20:52:00 Here is a message from the NRA: Anti-gun hysteria has reached a fever pitch in the Golden State. The California Assembly is considering a bill (Assembly Bill 2062) this session that, if passed, will have dire consequences for California?s law-abiding gun owners. AB2062 is scheduled to be heard on Wednesday, May 7 in the ...
By: Webloggin
Important Second Amendment Legislation Needs Help in Alabama!
2008-04-26 00:02:00 The Alabama State Legislature has been discussing numerous pro-gun bills in the past weeks. These bills are crucial to protecting the Second Amendment and hunting rights of gun owners and sportsmen in Alabama.
By: Gun News
Confederate Yankee Blows the Lid Off False ABC News Claim: U.S. Supplying G
2008-04-23 19:44:00 If a store routinely cheats its customers, its customers begin to go elsewhere. If the district attorney gets wind of the cheating, a criminal prosecution can result. It?s only in the wonderful world of TV news, however, that lying and cheating seem to have very limited repercussions. People like you and me have already gone ...
By: Webloggin
News on Pending Second Amendment-Related Bills in California!
2008-04-16 23:05:00 On Tuesday, April 15, numerous bills affecting our Second Amendment rights were considered by the California Legislature.
By: Gun News
Second Amendment Not That Important to OK Lawmakers
2008-04-01 14:23:00 On last night’s podcast (which you can subscribe to here), I read a letter from a female college student who was begging to be allowed to carry a concealed weapon on campus. She writes: I’m a UT-Arlington student. (I’m taking off this semester, but I’m returning in August.) I have to walk, by myself, across several parking lots. The campus is wide open to anybody who wishes to show up. Cooper Street, which basically runs right down the middle of the school, is a large and public road open to anybody who’d like to drive down it. And though many of the people who live in the numerous houses near the campus are wonderful, law-abiding citizens…some of them are not. Not every person in the surrounding neighborhood is a good guy or gal. The criminals who live right off campus have very easy, free access to the unarmed students who are in the parking lots and on the streets. There aren’t enough campus police officers to personally escort every stu...
Fantastic Coverage of DC v. Heller
2008-03-19 10:06:00 I was looking through our gun blog blogroll, and I don’t think you can get better coverage of yesterday’s Supreme Court case than Call Me Ahab did. You want first thoughts on the oral arguments? Ahab has them. The NRA statement on those oral arguments? Ahab has them. John McCain on DC v. Heller? Ahab has it too. Ahab even tipped me off about Downrange.tv’s coverage of the case. Fantastic work over at Call Me Ahab. I recommend visiting this site. Also, sign up for his RSS feed and his podcast feed. ShareThis
Supreme Court Hearing Second Amendment Gun Case
2008-03-18 20:21:00 The high court's first extensive examination of the Second Amendment since 1939 grew out of challenge to the District of Columbia's ban on ownership of handguns. Anise Jenkins, president of a coalition called Stand Up for Democracy in D.C., defended the district's 32-year-old ban on handgun ownership."We feel our local council knows what we need for a good standard of life and to keep us safe," Jenkins said. Kudos to you Ms. Jenkins!!! you are a very intelligent woman.In MY opinion:Keeping us safe means that the Second Amendment should be amended to where guns would be removed from American citizens, while allowing only less than lethal weapons to be used in personal self-defense. Keeping us safe means that present gun owners agree to safe storage of their guns, so that they are not so easily available to be used in the various gun crimes that we are hearing about more often every day.Keeping us safe means that like John McCain has said in a tv advertisement that you can view rig...
Second Amendment Scrutiny
2008-03-17 20:47:00 On the eve of oral arguments in District of Columbia v. Heller, here are a few articles that may be of interest to people following the case: Alan Gura and Robert Levy, two of the lawyers representing D.C. resident Dick Heller in his Second Amendment challenge to his city’s gun ban, summarize their arguments in the Legal ...
By: Gun News
Secession Over the Second Amendment?
2008-03-14 17:33:00 The State of Montana may make a move to leave the Union if the Supreme Court decides that the Second Amendment is a collective right, not an individual right. From PatriotPost.us: In the continuing saga of District of Columbia v. Heller, 39 of Montana?s elected officials have signed a resolution declaring that a Supreme Court ruling against the individual right of gun ownership would give their state grounds for leaving the union. It seems that when Montana?s settlers signed a statehood contract in 1889, one of the conditions was that the federal government agreed that individuals had the right to keep and bear arms. If the Supreme Court rules that firearm ownership is merely a state or ?collective? right, Montana officials say that the statehood contract will have been breeched. ?The U.S. would do well to keep its contractual promises to the states that the Second Amendment secures an individual right now as it did upon execution of the statehood contract,? Montana Secretary of St...
The Long and the Short of the Second Amendment
2008-03-05 18:57:00 “If you, like me, were wondering how support for the D.C. gun ban can be reconciled with the belief that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to arms,” writes Jacob Sullum, “you might want to check out Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe`s op-ed piece in today`s Wall Street Journal.”
By: Gun News
Important Second Amendment Legislation in Arizona!
2008-02-27 00:59:00 Two pieces of legislation that are of importance to Arizona NRA members are advancing in the Arizona State Legislature. HCR 2037, sponsored by State Representative Jerry Weiers (R-12), would protect the right to hunt and fish in Arizona through a constitutional amendment. Senate Bill 1214 introduced by State Senator Karen Johnson (R-18), would allow ...
By: Gun News
John McCain and the Second Amendment: Where?s He Stand?
2008-02-20 23:11:00 A Mixed Bag… …But not as bad as Clinton or Obama “He is really hard to get a fix on with gun rights.” John McCain and the Second Amendment: how does he stack up? When we tackled the question, we have to confess, we didn’t know. We assumed that McCain’s record on Second Amendment issues would be the ...
A second chance for the Second Amendment
2008-02-19 17:55:00 It`s election season, meaning candidates across the political spectrum will rediscover their love of shotguns and regale us with tender tales of hunting varmints. What this pandering actually tells us is that the acrimonious issue of gun ownership is settling in on the side of the Constitution. Though citizens hold varied opinions on how to ...
By: Gun News
Second Amendment Debate To Heat Up
2008-02-15 16:00:00 With yesterday’s shooting at Northern Illinois University the debate over rights protected by the Second Amendment will ramp up in the next few days. In that regard those seeking to disregard the constitution will seek to impose greater restrictions on gun ownership and possession in a belief that such will cause a decrease in gun related ...
Second Amendment Battle in DC, by US Rep. Ron Paul
2008-02-10 07:00:00 As a United States Congressman, I take my oath to uphold all of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights very seriously. Unfortunately, too many in Washington DC believe they can pick-and-choose which provisions of the constitution they can uphold. For example, many politicians, judges, and bureaucrats believe they have the power to disregard our right to own guns, even though the second amendment explicitly guarantees the people's right to "keep and bear arms." Like the Founding Fathers, I believe that the right to keep and bear arms is fundamental to a free society. Where law-abiding citizens are most freely allowed to defend themselves, communities are safer, while crime rises when law-abiding people's access to firearms is restricted. Gun laws only disarm those who respect the law. Those with criminal tendencies do not turn in their weapons and reform their ways because government bureaucrats enact statutes that tell them to. Gun control laws turn peaceful citizens into sitt...
Pro-gun crowd laments justice department`s move in Second Amendment case
2008-02-01 19:00:00 ?I was variously accused of being “negative” and “paranoid,” among other things, when I warned in this space some time ago that gun owners “should be careful what they wish for” in the Supreme Court`s upcoming ruling on Second Amendment rights,? writes Dave Henderson.
By: Gun News
Court has your Second Amendment rights directly in its cross hairs
2008-01-31 18:56:00 The U.S. Supreme Court last considered a Second Amendment case 68 years ago, but that hiatus is over. Before the court is a hotly contested case that could turn the gun debate on its ear, influence the presidential election, and surely impact our area.
By: Gun News
Important Nebraska Second Amendment Bills to be Considered Friday!
2008-01-24 00:13:00 On Friday, January 25, the Senate Judiciary Committee will debate several bills affecting our Second Amendment and hunting rights in Nebraska. The hearing will be held in Room 1113 of the State Capitol at 1:30 p.m. Please contact your State Senator today and respectively urge him or her to oppose LB 958 and LB ...
By: Gun News
The Second Amendment, for Dummies
2008-01-23 16:14:00 From the Associated Press: People who support closing the gun show loophole lie in on the lawn of the Capitol in Richmond, Va., Monday, Jan. 21, 2008. Families and friends of the Virginia Tech shooting victims packed a public hearing Monday to support legislation closing a loophole that allows criminals and the mentally ill to buy firearms at gun shows without a background check. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) And: Daniel Vann, who opposes the gun show bill, left, stands next to Virginia Tech shooting victim Colin Goddard, right, who is participating in a rally supporting a bill to close the gun show loophole at the Capitol in Richmond, Va., Monday, Jan. 21, 2008. The legislation is intended to remove a loophole that allows criminals and the mentally ill to buy firearms at gun shows without a background check. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) Hat Tip:Â Don Surber. Technorati Tags: hoplophobia, Second Amendment
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Fred Thompson on the Second Amendment
2008-01-07 14:31:00 From the Hawaii Reporter: In general, lawful gun ownership is a pretty simple matter. The Founders established gun-owner rights so that citizens would possess and be able to exercise the universal right of self-defense. Guns enable their owners to protect themselves from robbery and assault more successfully and more safely than they otherwise would be able to. The danger of laws like the D.C. handgun ban is that they limit the availability of legal guns to people who want to use them for legitimate reasons, such as self-defense (let alone hunting, sport shooting, collecting), while doing nothing to prevent criminals from acquiring guns. ShareThis
A Field Guide To American Politics Will Return Monday
2008-01-05 03:48:00 Our podcast will be back Monday, this time in the afternoon at 2 pm Central. We will be talking with Guy Midkiff of Concealed.wordpress.com about concealed carry and the Second Amendment. It should be a great show. If you are interested in learning more about concealed carry or keeping up on the Second Amendment, check out Guy’s blog. I think it is a great resource for defenders of the right to carry. Tags: podcast, gun-control, concealed-carry, second-amendmentShareThis
Second Amendment: A Citizen?s Right
2008-01-03 16:47:00 ?Here?s another reason why it?s important that we appoint judges who use the Constitution as more than a set of suggestions,? writes Fred Thompson. ?On Nov. 21, 2007, the Supreme Court decided to hear the case of District of Columbia v. Heller.?
By: Gun News
Second Amendment: A Citizen?s Right
2008-01-03 16:47:00 ?Here?s another reason why it?s important that we appoint judges who use the Constitution as more than a set of suggestions,? writes Fred Thompson. ?On Nov. 21, 2007, the Supreme Court decided to hear the case of District of Columbia v. Heller.?
By: Gun News
A History of the Right to Arms
2007-12-28 14:43:00 Our friends at Common Folk Using Common Sense have a great article on the history of the right to arms: The Second Amendment protects the individual citizens from having the federal government confiscate them. Period. There really is no debate that the Founder?s phrase ?militia? referred to the individual citizens and not to a federally-organized military force. The mere fact that a person is a law-abiding citizen of the US guarantees their God-given right to keep and bear arms. Testify, brother. AMEN! Tags: second-amendment, right-to-bear-armsShareThis
Gun Crimes Rising in Areas of England with Fewer Armed Officers
2007-12-26 13:30:00 I know what the libs would say here: correlation does not equal causation. While true, sometimes it is worthwhile to look at two sets of figures and consider that maybe this time, it does. Areas of England have less armed police officers than before. In those areas, crimes involving guns has increased. Significantly: Between 1997 and 2006,m, the number of authorised firearms officers in England and Wales fell from 6,738 to 6,584, even though there have been increases in overall police numbers. Yet statistics released by the Home Office show the number of individuals found guilty of possessing weapons rose by 43 per cent from 2001 to 2005. Over the same period, the number of crimes involving firearms recorded by police rose by 11 per cent, from 10,023 in 2001 to 11,084 in 2005. The overall drop conceals far greater falls in key areas of cities with some of the country’s worst records on gun crime. On Merseyside, where Liverpool has been ravaged by violence, the number ...
Gunning For a Change-The Court Takes Aim At The Second Amendment
2007-12-14 18:26:00 ?They are simple words ? ?the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed? - that liberal commentators have called ?maddeningly ambiguous,?? writes John G. Browning. ?Yet for all of the controversy surrounding gun control laws, the Second Amendment has not been considered by the U.S. Supreme Court in nearly ...
By: Gun News
The oh so controversial second amendment
2007-12-13 00:00:00 -By Bruce Kauffmann Special to the Terre Haute, Indiana Tribune-Star I saw this and jsut had to get it on Publius' Forum... The oh so controversial second amendment ? When the Bill of Rights was ratified this week (Dec. 15) in 1791, the Founders never dreamed that centuries later the Second Amendment would become ...
By: Publius Forum
Second Amendment 2.0
2007-12-11 07:41:00 By Jared GableA well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. It is interesting to any student of law and politics to consider the debate regarding the Second Amendment to the Constitution. However, until recently the debate has been merely an exercise in empty rhetoric and hollow philosophy without the hope of any real resolution or consensus. This changed when the Supreme Court decided to end a 68 year drought by taking on the question of whether the Second Amendment grants an individual right to own and carry firearms or if such a right is conditioned upon service in a state military organization. D.C. v. Heller is the particular case at issue. In 1976, the District of Columbia passed a series of ordinances which restricted the ownership and use of firearms within the District. In the Heller case, three particular ordinances are under fire (pun intended). Section 7-2502.02(a)...
Second Amendment Poll
2007-12-10 23:54:00 USA Today wants to know: Does the Second Amendment give individuals the right to bear arms? I don’t want to tell you how to vote, but it absolutely does.
Remembering John Lennon
2007-12-09 00:00:00 I just heard John Lennon's "Woman" on the radio, and, as always, it brought a tear to my eyes and soul.It's impossible, on one level, to compare assassinations, the murders of public figures. They are all horrendous. But the murder of John Lennon on this date in 1980 is in some ways the worst for me, and I can't speak for my generation.John was a singer, a songwriter, for God's sake, not a President or someone running for office. His murder was fueled by a sick thirst for fame, pure and simple. That's why I never mention the sicko monster's name.But this day - and public murders in the quest for fame - also makes me think about gun control. The killer in Omaha this week was looking for fame, too.I know about the Second Amendment. And as an absolutist on the First Amendment, which I think should be followed literally, with no government restrictions on speech or press, all of the time, I want to do the same for Second Amendment.But I can't help thinking that John Lennon...
By: Infinite Regress
If you want real gun control, stop trying to control the sale and possessio
2007-11-30 23:09:00 The US Supreme Court has decided to rule on the constitutionality of a law that prohibits Washington, DC residents from owning handguns. Naturally, the mainstream media and blogosphere have been quick to revive all the old arguments for and against gun control, rehash the history of the Second Amendment and the meanings of words like “militia” and “well regulated,” and pit rabid proponents for both sides against each other for our amusement. Entertainment aside, the gun control advocates are not likely to get what they want from the Supreme Court this time, and there’s great doubt they ever will. It’s not just a Second Amendment issue; it’s a protection issue. The US has one of the highest homicide rates in the industrialized world, and it’s not because so many people own guns. The Swiss have very widespread gun ownership as a function of their universal, military service, and the homicide rate there is among the lowest in the worl...
Mike Huckabee On The Second Amendment
2007-11-29 03:04:00 * The Second Amendment is primarily about tyranny and self-defense, not hunting. The Founding Fathers wanted us to be able to defend ourselves from our own government, if need be, and from all... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Supreme Court to Hear Second Amendment Case
2007-11-27 01:37:00 Well, this is gonna be messier than that one dress that Monica wore when President Clinton…well, never mind. Anyway, the Supreme Court is going to hear a case debating the District of Columbia’s gun ban. My personal opinion is that the gun ban is going to be upheld, and I don’t see how it couldn’t be ...
Obama Thinks the Second Amendment Applies Only to Rural Areas
2007-11-26 14:28:00 While speaking in Iowa, Obama said there needed to be gun control in the cities, but in the country, well, there’s a need for guns out there: “We should be able to combine respect for those traditions with our concern for kids who are being shot down. This is a classic example of us just applying some common sense, just being reasonable, right? And reasonable would say that lawful gun owners ? I respect the Second Amendment. I think lawful gun owners should be able to hunt, be sportsmen, protect their families. “And by the way, Michelle, my wife, she was traveling up, I think, in eastern Iowa, she was driving through this nice, beautiful area, going through all this farmland and hills and rivers and she said ‘Boy, it’s really pretty up here,’ but she said, ‘But you know, I can see why if I was living out here, I’d want a gun. Because, you know, 911 is going to take some time before somebody responds. You know what I mean? You know, it&...
Another shot at the Second Amendment
2007-11-23 01:14:00 In seemingly less time than it takes to say “ready on the firing line,” the U.S. Supreme Court will be embroiled in the firearms culture wars as it rules on what the Second Amendment really means when it comes to gun ownership. Six residents of the District of Columbia have filed suit to lift the ...
Student Group Fights To Carry Guns on Campus
2007-11-21 21:34:00 Mike Guzman and thousands of other students say the best way to prevent campus bloodshed is more guns. Guzman, an economics major at Texas State University-San Marcos, is among 8,000 students nationwide who have joined the nonpartisan Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, arguing that students and faculty already licensed to carry concealed weapons should be ...
By: The Hot Joints
SCOTUS to Hear Major Second Amendment Case
2007-11-21 03:35:00 A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. For the first time in sixty-eight years, the Supreme Court of the United States has agreed to hear a case to determine just what the Second Amendment “right ...
SCOTUS to Hear Major Second Amendment Case
2007-11-20 21:46:00 A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. For the first time in sixty-eight years, the Supreme Court of the United States has agreed to hear a case to determine just what the Second Amendment “right to keep and bear arms” means: Here is the way the Court phrased the granted issue: “Whether the following provisions — D.C. Code secs. 7-2502.02(a)(4), 22-4504(a), and 7-2507.02 — violate the Second Amendment rights of individuals who are not affiliated with any state-regulated militia, but who wish to keep handguns and other firearms for private use in their homes?” The first listed section bars registration of pistols if not registered before Sept. 24, 1976; the second bars carrying an unlicensed pistol, and the third requires that any gun kept at home must be unloaded and disassembled or bound by a lock, such as one that prevents the trigger fr...
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Challenge to DC Gun Ban
2007-11-20 20:54:00 From CNS News: The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that it will decide whether the ban on owning guns in the District of Columbia is constitutional, a pivotal case that could determine if the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects the right to own firearms. At issue is a 31-year-old Washington, D.C., law banning handguns ...
By: The Hot Joints
Illinois Counties Supporting the Second Amendment!
2007-11-17 01:49:00 Currently, 60 of the 102 counties in Illinois have passed resolutions stating support of the individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms guaranteed by the Second Amendment. This growing movement should be noted by state lawmakers in Springfield. Mostly symbolic, these proclamations state support for the Second Amendment and opposition to efforts to ...
By: Gun News
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