WASHINGTON, DC – The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted review in the first Second Amendment case in almost a decade, a case supported by the National Rifle Association (NRA), and perhaps signaling what to expect from the new membership of the Supreme Court.
Illinois Supreme Court struck down a “1000-foot firearm-restricted zones” by public parks on Thursday, ruling that the zones limit self-defense and violate previous court rulings in favor of carrying guns in public.
It is January 23, 2018, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has ignored national reciprocity for 46 consecutive weeks.
A natural right that ends at state lines has theoretically moved from the arena of rights and into the category of privileges.
Gun-controlled Chicago surpassed 600 homicides for a calendar year for only the second time since 2003.
Chicago’s gun crime is soaring, and the city’s mayor is pushing more gun control as a solution, but Chicago’s homicide was even higher when the city’s handgun ban was in place.
With Neil Gorush confirmed and sworn in as Supreme Court justice, the NRA is now redoubling pressure on lawmakers to take up National Reciprocity for concealed carry
During the opening day of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) called the NRA an “extreme organization” that stands in the way of getting “military-style assault weapons off our streets.”
On March 04, 2010, the Chicago Tribune reported that the hallmark of municipal gun bans was a sharp increase in death rates, and it suggested the reason for the rise in fatalities was because bans affect law-abiding citizens rather than criminals.
On August 23 author and Conservative Leaders for Education chairman William Bennett warned that the Second Amendment will be a “primary target” of the Supreme Court if Hillary Clinton is elected to the presidency.
Just hours after Donald Trump renewed his claim that Hillary Clinton wants to “abolish” the Second Amendment, PolitiFact tried to counter by suggesting that Clinton “misspoke” or misunderstand the Australian gun ban when she voiced support for it in October 2015.
Gun Owners of America (GOA) is renewing their push to secure national reciprocity for concealed carry, thereby guaranteeing that the right to carry does not stop at a given state’s border. Representative Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) and Senator John Cornyn (R-TX)
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) announced on Monday that a lower court’s decision to uphold Massachusetts’ ban on stun guns must be revisited.
The Senate should “bury” President Obama’s judicial nomination and declare it “Dead on Arrival,” Gun Owners of America (GOA) urged the Senate.
On March 13 CBS News contended that the meaning of the Second Amendment is still unclear and suggested it will be up to Antonin Scalia’s Supreme Court replacement to help decide whether it refers to individual rights or collective rights for persons in the “militia.”
On February 18, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said President Obama will nominate a replacement for Antonin Scalia to the Supreme Court in “a little over three weeks.”
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) refused last year to intercede and reverse a Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruling that upheld the “assault weapons” ban in Chicago’s Highland Park. Associate Justice Clarence Thomas dissented–Antonin Scalia joining him–suggesting that wordsmiths were finding categories of guns to ban by listing types of firearms outside those explicitly in focus in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008).
The late Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia was a bulwark for the individual right to keep and bear arms. He voted with the majority in the seminal case of District of Columbia v Heller (2008), a decision that defended the
President Barack Obama needs a fact check. His argument that people on the “No-Fly List” should be banned from buying a gun shows a fundamental misunderstanding—or rejection—of constitutional rights.
On October 17 the Associated Press claimed that the right to use a gun to defend one’s home was created via decisions from the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) that were handed down in 2008 and 2010.
On August 7, the Baltimore Sun ran a column ubiquitously examining the chasm between Americans who arm themselves for self-defense and Americans who do not. But on a deeper level, the column asserted that the meaning of the Second Amendment
When the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled that every state must recognize same sex marriages, they used a basis for judgement that will not easily stop at same sex marriage. In fact, it is a basis for judgement that should offer itself to national reciprocity of concealed carry permits and permit holders.
On Cornell University Law School’s Legal Information Institute (LII) webpage introducing the Second Amendment, the individual right to keep and bear arms is presented as dating all the way back to 2008.
