District of Columbia v. Heller

On Thursday, Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) signed an “assault weapons” ban legislation into law and the NRA and Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) immediately filed a lawsuit.

On January 30, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled against a lower court decision upholding a ban on handgun purchases by 18-20 year-olds.

The Second Amendment references a militia, “the security of a free State,” and two specific rights–the right to possess arms and the right to carry them–and all of this is bound together by a general, overarching right to self-defense.

U.S. District Judge Peter Sheridan pronounced New Jersey’s AR-15 ban unconstitutional on Tuesday.

NJ.com used an editorial Tuesday to lament the existence of the Second Amendment and suggested the U.S. would be better off if it just followed Canada’s gun banning lead.

The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) filed a lawsuit this week alleging California’s use of an approved-gun “Roster” effectively bans “thousands of handgun models” available throughout the rest of the country.

Judge Amy Coney Barrett stood up to hostile questioning on Wednesday morning by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) about her dissent in the Kanter v. Barr case last year, after he falsely claimed that she had described the right to vote as “secondary.”

Kansas Attorney General Derek Schimdt led seven other Attorneys General in an amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the United States contending that the Second Amendment protects suppressors too.

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.

President Donald Trump continues making good on his pledge to use Supreme Court nominations to save the Second Amendment from “people like Hillary Clinton.”

Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) claimed there have been “hundreds” of school shootings with “assault weapons.”

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) focused his opening statement in Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court as an attempt by Senate Democrats and their leftwing allies to re-litigate the 2016 election of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton.

The Los Angeles Times published an editorial on July 26, 2018, claiming the Ninth Circuit’s pro-open carry ruling is fraudulent and reiterating their position that the ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) is fraudulent too.

The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) has launched a massive ad buy on television for “The Deciding Vote,” a commercial supporting Judge Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, reminding millions of American gun owners that the fate of the Second Amendment could turn on whether the Senate confirms Kavanaugh to the nation’s highest court.

In 2011, D.C. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh used a dissenting opinion to explain that semiautomatic handguns and rifles are “commonly-owned” and therefore constitutionally protected.

AWR talks with Dick Heller on this week’s episode of Bullets.

During an interview on the June 26, 2018, episode of Bullets with AWR Hawkins, Dick Heller recounted the victory secured 10 years ago in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) and made clear even greater victories await if gun owners will simply flood the polls on election day.

In February 2014 former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens campaigned for a change in the language of the Second Amendment to eliminate any protections on the individual right to keep and bear arms.

In a wide-ranging February 27 interview with the Daily Beast, television show host Jerry Springer opined that “there is no reason to have AR-15s and assault weapons.”

The Second Amendment Foundation is asking SCOTUS to review a decision which upheld Alameda County’s zoning policies against gun stores.

The U.S. District Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit rejected a request for an en banc hearing of Wrenn v. District of Columbia

NRA backs a request that the Supreme Court of the United States review the 4th Circuit’s decision upholding Maryland’s “assault weapons” ban.

Florida Carry is asking a the SCOTUS to rule on open carry outside the home via David Lee Norman v. State of Florida.

When U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez blocked the implementation of California’s “high capacity” ban, he explained that he did so in part because the ban failed “the simple test of Heller.”

With Justice Neil Gorsuch now seated on the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), the NRA is launching a “series” of lawsuits aimed at rolling back gun controls in California. The NRA’s first move is a suit filed with

While rolling back onerous Obama-era environmental and business regulations, President Donald Trump has also been quietly dropping gun controls which were either put in place or at least prolonged by the Obama administration.

Neil Gorsuch was confirmed to the Supreme Court on April 7 and this week will take part in deciding whether he and his fellow justices will hear the United States Courts of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s ruling which upheld California’s “good cause” requirement for concealed carry.

On April 7 the NRA made clear Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) can count on facing an advertising onslaught during his re-election campaign because of his decision to vote against the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch.

On Friday the Senate confirmed Neil Gorsuch as the 113th justice of the Supreme Court, thus making good on President Trump’s pledge to use SCOTUS to save the Second Amendment from “people like Hillary Clinton.”

On day two of the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) pushed a backdoor angle on gun control and pressed Gorsuch to show openness toward it.

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.”

President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States is Neil Gorsuch, a judge on the United State Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit who has written that “the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right.”

The National Rifle Association (NRA) endorsed Donald Trump’s candidacy with the outspoken intention of saving the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) from the anti-gun, leftist jurists who would have certainly been nominated by Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump’s victory ushers in what the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre describes as a historic “moment to go on offense” and to take new ground for the Second Amendment, rather than spend the next four years trapped in a defensive position.

On November 11, the National Rifle Association (NRA) reminded everyone in the Twittersphere that gun control was on the ballot in the presidential election, and it lost.

Time and again Clinton openly admitted her disagreement with Heller–and her plan to use SCOTUS to tweak or reverse it–while simultaneously pushing enough gun control to abolish the Second Amendment. Trump took the opposite position: vowing to defend Heller with SCOTUS justices “in the mold of Justice Scalia” and to maintain the Second Amendment “in its strongest form.”