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High Court's Gun Ruling Won't End Local Skirmishes
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (June 28) -- By extending the Second Amendment right to bear arms to state and local governments, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday opened the door to legal challenges to gun laws across the country. Whether the decision will change the status quo, though, remains unclear. The case, McDonald v. City of Chicago, strikes down decades-old gun bans in Chicago and its suburb of Oak Park, Ill. It follows almost two years to the day the court's landmark Heller decision striking down the District of Columbia's ban on handgun possession. That case, also decided by an ideologically split ...
Gun Advocates Hit Va., DC, in Double-Barreled Protest
By David Knowles - AOL News(April 19) -- Protesting what they perceive as a growing threat to the Second Amendment, armed gun-rights activists gathered today in Virginia as their firearms-free brethren congregated in nearby Washington, D.C. Thanks to a law signed by President Barack Obama, a few dozen protesters were allowed to gather at two public parks in Virginia carrying a variety of unconcealed weapons, including rifles and pistols. "We are done backing up," former Alabama Minuteman leader Mike Vanderboegh told the crowd assembled at Fort Hunt Park. "Not one more inch." Olivier Douliery, Abaca Press / MCT ...
Supreme Court to Hear Case on Local, State Handgun Laws
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe U.S. Supreme Court said Wednesday that it will hear a challenge to Chicago's handgun ban -- a major case that could once again embroil the court in controversy over interpreting gun rights, NPR reported Tuesday. The court struck down the District of Columbia's similar gun ban last year in a case that was widely regarded as one of the most important of its kind in many years. With the high court having bolstered Second Amendment rights when federal laws are involved, the plaintiff in McDonald v. Chicago is now seeking those protections for state and local laws. Constitutions in 44 states ...
Sarah Palin Resurfaces to Support NRA
By Emily Miller - Politics DailySarah Palin made her first public appearance since resigning as Alaska governor at a National Rifle Association (NRA) event Saturday night in Anchorage. Palin gave a "stirring" speech on the Second Amendment right to bear arms, according to the group. ...
NRA Takes Aim At Sotomayor
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyGoing into the Sonia Sotomayor hearings, the National Rifle Association disappointed conservatives by withholding a decision on whether to oppose her nomination, with leaders saying only that they harbored "very serious concerns" about her. Late Thursday, the NRA came out against Sotomayor in no uncertain terms, saying the judge's record and testimony at the hearings "clearly demonstrate a hostile view toward the 2nd Amendment and the fundamental right of self-defense guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution." Specifically, Chris Cox and Wayne LaPierre, the top dogs at the NRA, released a ...
Sotomayor: Second Amendment Is an Individual Right
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyAmong the series of questions that Judge Sonia Sotomayor fielded from senators Tuesday morning were those addressing her position on gun rights, specifically her opinion of the recent Heller decision issued by the Supreme Court. Last year, District of Columbia v. Heller determined that the Second Amendment's guarantee that Americans can keep and bear arms is a right of every individual, not just a general right of a community as a whole. The committee's chairman, Patrick Leahy, first told Sotomayor that he enjoys target shooting on a regular basis back home in Vermont and then asked, referring ...
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