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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 ...
Sarah Palin Tells NRA Convention Obama Would Ban Guns if He Could
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyCHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Sarah Palin told NRA members meeting here that the only reason President Obama and his allies aren't trying to limit gun ownership rights is the fear of a political backlash. "Don't doubt for a minute that, if they thought they could get away with it, they would ban guns and ban ammunition and gut the Second Amendment," Palin told the annual NRA gathering Friday. She urged some 9,000 NRA members to "stop them in their tracks." The NRA's "Celebration of American Values" event was part political rally, part Tea Party gathering, with a parade of mostly Republican warm-up acts ...
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 ...
Facing Gun Issue, Starbucks Throws Up Its Hands
By Richard C. Paddock - AOL NewsSAN FRANCISCO (March 3) -- The Starbucks coffee chain announced today that it will continue letting customers openly wear unloaded handguns in its coffee shops. At the same time, the company asked members of the "open carry" gun movement and their opponents to refrain from putting Starbucks in the firing line of the national debate over the right to bear arms. "The political, policy and legal debates around these issues belong in the legislatures and courts, not in our stores," the Seattle-based company said in a statement released to the media. Forty-three states allow citizens to openly ...
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 ...
For Virginia Democrats, the Pressure's On
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyDemocrats have won almost every big Virginia election since 2001 – installing two governors and two senators, and breaking a 40-year presidential losing streak by going for Barack Obama last year. The pressure is on to choose another winner Tuesday in a three-way gubernatorial primary, or risk setting back their party and their president. ...
Is Meghan McCain a Gun Nut?
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyI've been wondering this for several days, ever since she began teasing her next Daily Beast column on her Twitter feed. Could Meghan McCain, role model and political Rosetta Stone, actually be "one of them gun nuts?"The short answer is, "Kinda. Not really." She writes in her column that she really gets a kick out of the Bang-Bang!:So, yes, the girl who wants to legalize gay marriage and thinks the GOP is out of touch with progressive-minded Republicans is fiercely protective of her Second Amendment rights and finds it empowering, especially as a woman, to fire off a few rounds and get closer ...
The Coming Gun Debate
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyWith the recent shootings in Binghamton, NY and Pittsburgh, PA -- plus the ten-year anniversary of Columbine on April 20, it is predictable that some calls for more gun control are likely to come. Of course, like stem cells and gays in the military, the gun issue poses a problem for a president who benefited electorally from the death of cultural outrage, as well as the dormancy of the culture wars. In the 2008 general election, Obama was able to win the Catholic vote (a bloc that may well go against him next time), and to win states like Virginia where issues like gun control have in the past ...
'Life Member' - New Obama Ad
By Greg McNeilly - Politics DailyBarack Obama - who got a "F" from the National Rifle Assocaiation for being anti-gun owner's rights is actually airing a :30 second spot titled "Life Member." It's meant to innoculate fears of gun owners that Obama is too risky or dangerous to their 2nd Amendment Rights. ...
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