The NRA is about to lose yet another fight — this time hoping to stop Elena Kagan’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. But Ms. Kagan’s confirmation is all but certain. The NRA is simply using the Senate’s vote as yet another shameless opportunity to throw it’s weight around. According to the Los Angels Times [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Violence Policy Center). For Immediate Release: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 Contact: Marty Langley, 202-822-8200 x109, mlangley@vpc.org Washington, DC–A Florida mass shooting that resulted in the murder of four women, an innocent 17-year-old gunned down by a 61-year-old man in a case of mistaken identity, [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from GunFreeKids.org). FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Andy Pelosi (914-629-6726), email: andy@gunfreekids.org (June 28, 2010, New York) – Earlier today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment applies to state and local governments. The Court considered the case of McDonald v. City of Chicago, where [...]
Supreme Court Stills Holds that Common Sense Gun Laws Are Constitutional and Can Be Enacted to Save Lives and Protect Communities For Immediate Release Contact: Thom Mannard, Executive Director, ICHV tmannard@ichv.org Scott Vogel, Communications Director, States United to Prevent Gun Violence scott@supgv.org (June 28, 2010, Chicago) – The Supreme Court extended the scope of the [...]
The Philadelphia Inquirer published an editorial on March 4th about the Supreme Court’s new Second Amendment case, McDonald v. City of Chicago, about the city’s handgun ban. A gun-rights decision by the Supreme Court two years ago threatened to make it more dangerous to walk the streets of Washington. Now the top court’s conservative voting [...]
See link to the Supreme Court’s transcripts of the oral arguments here.
Oral Arguments to Supreme Court On Chicago’s Handgun Ban Supreme Court Releases Transcripts Of Oral Arguments In McDonald v. City of Chicago. Analysis: Second Amendment Extension Likely. The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed poised to require state and local governments to obey the Second Amendment guarantee of a personal right to a gun, but with [...]
(We strongly urge you to read Josh Sugarmann’s new piece on the Huffington Post published on March 1st. Sugarmann is the Executive Director of the Violence Policy Center in Washington, DC.) Tomorrow “Sport Shooting Ambassador Award” winner Antonin Scalia will hear oral arguments in McDonald v. Chicago, a case that will decide whether the opinion [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). For Immediate Release Contact: Thom Mannard (312) 341-0939 / cell (847) 997-3020, tmannard@ichv.org Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence Says Communities Must Have the Right and Authority to Enact Sensible Gun Laws to Save Lives and Protect Public Safety (March [...]
According to the Washington Post on March 1st: As a member of the Junior ROTC, teenager Antonin Scalia toted his rifle on the subway ride back and forth to Queens. As a hunter, he speaks lyrically of stalking wild turkeys. And as a justice, he may have reached the pinnacle of his more than two [...]
According to the News Observer on Oct. 12th: RALEIGH The N.C. Supreme Court attracted national attention a few weeks ago as the first court in the nation to rule that a convicted felon has a right to own a gun. What drew little notice is that Edward Thomas Brady, the justice who wrote the 5-2 [...]
(We are pleased to post the following essay from Josh Horwitz, Executive Director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, and was originally published in the Huffington Post). On Monday, it was national news when a man (identified only as “Chris”) appeared at a health care rally in Phoenix, Arizona, openly and legally carrying an [...]
According to The Hill magazine on Aug. 20th: Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) called on the Homeland Security Department and the U.S. Secret Service on Wednesday to provide tighter restrictions on citizens carrying weapons, openly or concealed, while in the vicinity of President Barack Obama. Norton, who sits on the Homeland Security Committee, made the [...]
(We are pleased to post the following joint press release from the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence and the Freedom States Alliance). For Immediate Release Contact: Thom Mannard (312) 341-0939 Scott Vogel (312) 243-8980, scott@freedomstatesalliance.org On One-Year Anniversary of Supreme Court Heller Ruling that Stripped D.C. Of Its Handgun Ban, Pro-Gun Groups Want To Flood [...]
According to the Huffington Post on June 24th: Hal Turner, New Jersey’s top white-supremacist internet-radio show hosting lunatic is back in the news today, for pretty much the same reason he was in the news earlier this month: threatening public officials with bodily harm, and subsequently getting arrested for it! This time out, Turner’s calls [...]
(We are posting the following “fact check” from the Senate Democratic Communications Center from Sen. Harry Reid’s (NV) office. Today, Republican senators continued their fear and smear campaign against Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor by attacking her record on Second Amendment cases. Judge Sotomayor faithfully follows the law in cases concerning the Second Amendment. [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). For Immediate Release Contact: Thom Mannard (312) 341-0939 Definitive Ruling Holds that Gun Violence Prevention Laws Do Not Violate the Second Amendment; Decision Is Major Setback To Gun Lobby’s Radical Agenda To Eradicate Nation’s Gun [...]
According to the New York Times on Mar. 10th: WASHINGTON — New York City’s nine-year lawsuit accusing gun makers of flooding illicit markets with their firearms came to an end on Monday, when the United States Supreme Court refused to consider a lower court’s dismissal of the case. Without comment, the justices decided not to [...]
(We are pleased to post the following alert from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). ICHV Legislative Update February 13, 2009 Focus on the New Legislative Session As we focus once again on a legislative session in Springfield, we need to understand right off the bat what are likely to be the [...]
(We are pleased to post the following alert from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). ICHV Insights: Looking Ahead to 2009 Federal Issues On a legislative level, we know that for the last eight years, the gun lobby has basically controlled the federal agenda. This is not surprising. After all, the [...]
On Dec. 23rd, BuzzFlash.com conducted an in-depth interview with Scott Vogel, Communications Director for Freedom States Alliance, about the election of Barack Obama, the overwhelming victory over the gun lobby across the country, and what the future holds for the issue. Freedom States Alliance works directly with a network of seven state-based gun violence prevention [...]
A stellar article in AlterNet by Alexander Zaitchik, on Dec. 4th says that: “Among the big losers in November were the NRA and the myth of the once-feared ‘NRA Voter.’ Reform of our gun laws is on the way.” Last month, voters across the country took a cue from the late Charlton Heston and pried [...]
Chicago WBBM news radio reported on Nov. 19th that the village of Winnetka chose to remove its handgun ban for fear of exorbitant court and legal costs trying to battle the gun lobby. The suit was brought by gun proponents to challenge the local ordinance, claiming it violated residents’ “Second Amendment rights” after the Supreme [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence). WASHINGTON, Oct 21, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ — The U.S. Supreme Court’s Second Amendment decision in D.C. v. Heller may have the “unintended consequence” of helping to enact stronger gun laws, according to a report issued today by [...]
A front page story on the New York Times on Oct. 21st reported that conservative legal scholars sharply criticized Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller that stripped DC of its ability to ban deadly handguns, and other sensible measures, to save lives from gun violence. Two conservative federal judges [...]
(We are pleased to post the following guest commentary and political cartoon by Martha Rosenberg). You’d think the National Rifle Association (NRA) would be taking bows. In June, the Supreme Court put its “Gun Confiscation Phobia” (GCP) to rest by finding the District of Columbia’s gun ban unconstitutional and affirming the Second Amendment. (Evanston, Morton [...]
The New York Times wrote a scathing editorial on Sept. 19th, against the gun lobby and the gutless members of Congress who voted to make D.C., our nation’s capital, less safe from gun violence and potential assassinations by stripping the District’s ability to pass reasonable gun restrictions. The Times wrote: “In all, 85 Democrats joined [...]
Well, we told you so. In fact, even the pro-gun Bush administration’s own Department of Justice and Solicitor General’s Office told us so. A Supreme Court ruling reversing the ban on handguns in D.C., and an unprecedented new interpretation that the Second Amendment grants an individual “right to keep and bear arms†might backfire and [...]
Dick Heller, who was the lead plaintiff in overturning the D.C. handgun ban isn’t done yet. After being one of only two people to register a handgun with the Washington, D.C., police after the ban was overturned by the Supreme Court, Heller vowed to fight on: Dick Heller, whose legal challenge prompted the Supreme Court [...]
What a refreshing breeze sanity brings in its wake! Officials at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana have announced that the recent “D.C. Handgun Ban” Supreme Court ruling will have no impact on their prohibition of guns on campus. According to the News-Gazette in Champaign: Bring a gun to the Illini Union, a dorm, or [...]
A news brief from Reuters on July 9th stated: Last month’s Supreme Court ruling striking down a strict gun control law in the U.S. capital will lead to more deaths and accidental injuries, the editors of the New England Journal of Medicine said on Wednesday. They joined a growing clamor from medical doctors, especially emergency [...]
Syndicated Chicago Tribune columnist Robert Koehler is a compassionate journalist who frequently writes with a broad overview of issues. And that is how he approached the recent Supreme Court ruling establishing the NRA’s interpretation of the Second Amendment. In his most recent column, Koehler writes: As one anonymous writer put it in response to a [...]
We haven’t talked about gun suicides in awhile, but Mother Jones magazine brings up the issue in relation to the recent Supreme Court ruling upholding handgun “ownership” as an “individual right.” Alas, the number of people killed in “self-defense” with a gun is dwarfed by the number of people who commit suicide with a firearm. [...]
The day after the Supreme Court erased DC’s handgun ban and invented a new interpretation of an “individual right” to keep and bear arms, the Chicago Tribune writes a blistering editorial calling for the repeal of the Second Amendment. Repeal the 2nd Amendment No, we don’t suppose that’s going to happen any time soon. But [...]
Los Angeles Times Opinion: Judicial Activism By Conservatives Op-ed By Erwin Chemerinsky The Supreme Court’s invalidation of the District of Columbia’s handgun ban powerfully shows that the conservative rhetoric about judicial restraint is a lie. In striking down the law, Justice Antonin Scalia’s majority opinion, joined by the court’s four other most conservative justices, is [...]
The Washington Post posted this prediction on the morning of June 26th: With its term coming to an end, the U.S. Supreme Court this morning is expected to issue its ruling on the District’s handgun-ownership ban in a case that could result in a landmark interpretation of the Second Amendment. In District of Columbia v. [...]
GunGuys returns to the looming U.S. Supreme Court decision on the ban on handguns in Washington D.C. As we have pointed out many a time, “if” — and we do emphasize “if” — the Court erases DC’s handgun ban by saying the District’s gun control provisions violate the Second Amendment, the decision will not likely [...]
We’ve said before that it sometimes takes a view from overseas to get a little perspective on our love affair with guns. Today we want to call your attention to an article from the UK “Scotsman,†which in an April 7th article explained the Washington D.C. gun case currently before the Supreme Court. After providing [...]
The Bush administration, through its Solicitor General, is asking the Supreme Court to send the D.C. handgun case back to the D.C. Appellate Court. For a bit of history and context, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Appellate Court, led by arch-conservative Judge Laurence Silberman, overturned a D.C. ban on handguns. The District of Columbia [...]
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