(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 Daily Show with Jon Stewart posted a must-see video on April 12th, about the “open carry” handgun movement, including an interview with Paul Helmke, the President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. WATCH DAILY SHOW VIDEO The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Open Carrier Discrimination www.thedailyshow.com [...]
(We are pleased to post the following alert from the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence). When: Sunday, November 22, 2009 Where: Mayme Moore Park 240 Martin Luther King Blvd. Columbus, OH 43205 Near King Arts Complex Presiding: Bishop Timothy J. Clarke, First Church of God – Columbus In Memory of: October 17 – Nathaniel Johns, [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from our Freedom States Alliance affiliate, the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence). Press Release: Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence Nov. 13, 2009 Toledo, OH: On Nov. 12th the Eighth Appellate District Court of Ohio released their ruling deciding that Ohio’s firearms preemption statute, R.C. 9.68, is [...]
Arthur Frommer, founder of Frommer’s Travel Guides, said that he would not travel to Arizona after protesters to President Obama’s town hall meeting in Phoenix last week openly carried military-style assault weapons and loaded handguns. What a refreshing statement from Mr. Frommer who is no doubt being bombarded on his blog from gun extremists because [...]
Another “law-abiding” gun owner — this time a county commissioner in Kent, Michigan, Dean Agee — demonstrated a gross level of irresponsibility by hosting a machine gun and other weapons shooting demonstration that damaged homes, vehicles and property, not to mention risking the lives of local residents. According to MLive on Aug. 23rd – (see [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from CeaseFire PA). For immediate release, August 5, 2009 Contact: Jana Finder, (412) 370-3778 9th PA municipality to adopt reasonable legislation to help police crack down on illegal handguns is yet another victory for statewide movement ERIE – Today, Erie City Council voted unanimously to pass [...]
Former Virginia Congressman Tom Davis wrote the following opinion piece in Politico on July 22nd, 2009: Today Congress is slated to vote on a bill that would effectively nationalize permits for those who wish to carry concealed guns. However, those of us who support conceal and carry laws must be concerned that Congress would force [...]
July 21, 2009 The gun lobby is attempting to force our communities to permit untrained and dangerous individuals from other states to carry loaded, hidden handguns in public. CALL YOUR SENATORS RIGHT NOW AND TELL THEM TO VOTE “NO!” ON SEN. THUNE’S AMENDMENT NO. 1618 TO THE DEFFENSE AUTHORIZATION Bill S. 1390. A VOTE IS [...]
The New York Times posted an EXCEPTIONAL must-read editorial on July 21, 2009: On Wednesday, the Senate is expected to vote on the latest assault on public safety in the name of gun ownership. Introduced as an amendment to the military’s budget bill by Senator John Thune, a Republican of South Dakota, this radical measure [...]
(We are pleased to post the following piece from Josh Sugarmann, Exec. Director of the Violence Policy Center, that was originally published in the Huffington Post on July 20th). For more than two decades a top priority of the gun lobby has been establishing and expanding state laws that allow the carrying of concealed handguns [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Violence Policy Center). 31 Incidents Result in Criminal Charges or Suicide of Concealed Handgun Permit Holder Washington, DC–Concealed handgun permit holders killed at least seven police officers and 44 private citizens in 31 incidents during the period May 2007 through April 2009 according to [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, New Yorkers Against Gun Violence). New York Senators Must Oppose and Filibuster If Necessary The Dangerous National Concealed Weapons Amendment No. 1618, Now Part of The Defense Appropriation Bill (S1390) NEW YORK, July 17 /PRNewswire/ — New Yorkers Against Gun Violence [...]
July 16, 2009 The gun lobby is attempting to force our communities to permit untrained and dangerous individuals from other states to carry loaded, hidden handguns in public. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and your Senators can stop the gun lobby’s extremist agenda. That’s why we need you to call Sen. Reid’s office RIGHT NOW [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release on behalf of national gun violence prevention organizations, including the Freedom States Alliance). For Immediate Release: Monday, July 13, 2009 Contacts: Scott Vogel, scott@freedomstatesalliance.org Peter Hamm, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, 202-898-0792, phamm@bradymail.org or Ladd Everitt, Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, 202-701-7171, leveritt@csgv.org Washington, DC–America’s [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from our Freedom States Alliance affiliate, the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence). For Immediate Release Contact: Toby Hoover, ocagv@yahoo.com Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence Calls On Religious Leaders To Speak Out Over Gun Lobby’s Immoral Agenda (Toledo, OH, June 29, 2009) – The Ohio Coalition Against [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from CeaseFire PA). For Immediate Release June 18, 2009 Contact: Joe Grace, joe.grace@ceasefirepa.org Victory For Other PA Cities that Have Passed Lost Or Stolen Handgun Ordinances HARRISBURG – A Pennsylvania appellate court today allowed Philadelphia’s lost or stolen handgun reporting ordinance to stand, rejecting a challenge [...]
(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 [...]
Our Freedom States Alliance affiliate, Ceasefire NJ, and one of the most remarkable gun violence prevention advocates, Bryan Miller, is celebrating a huge victory tonight in passing a one handgun per month law. The state senate vote was 21-15, and now goes to Gov. Corzine for his signature to become law. (See this video profile [...]
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. [...]
Legislators in Montana are considering a bill that would clarify self defense laws and let people carry concealed weapons inside of city limits – even without a permit to do so. But some Democrats, on the losing side of a 58-42 preliminary vote, said the proposal is an unnecessary wedge issue driven by gun groups. [...]
(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 [...]
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 [...]
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