(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence). FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 28, 2010 MEDIA CONTACTS: CSGV: Ladd Everitt, (202) 701-7171, leveritt@csgv.org ROOT: Kenny Barnes, (202) 431-6646, kennysr@rootinc.org NRA Has Deliberately Misled Congress About Substance of D.C.’s Current Gun Laws Washington, D.C.—Yesterday, U.S. Senators John McCain (R-AZ) [...]
(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 [...]
Stephen Colbert satirized the NRA on his show last night on Jan. 13th, along with Gilbert Arenas of the Washington Wizards. It’s a very funny segment. The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
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 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. [...]
On June 12, Bill Moyers used his PBS news program to call attention to the rash of recent high-profile shootings and implored lawmakers and the American people to take back our country from the gun lobby’s radical agenda. See video here. TRANSCRIPT Bill Moyers: Finally, you know by now that in our nation’s capital on [...]
The New York Times reported on Mar. 15th that the gun lobby has hung an anchor around the neck of Congressional leaders hoping to move their legislative agenda forward. The gun lobby’s pull on the Republican Party, coupled with their influence on rural and suburban Democrats has forced this “wedge issue” to become an all [...]
Politico reported on Feb. 10th: The man, identified as Alfred Brock, 64, of Winnfield, La., did not make an explicit threat against Obama, said Capitol Police spokeswoman Kimberly Schneider. Brock was charged possession of an unregistered firearm and possession of unregistered ammunition. About 4 p.m. Tuesday, the man drove his truck to the north barricade [...]
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 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 this remarkable essay by Ladd Everitt, Director of Communications for the Coalition To Stop Gun Violence, from CSGV’s blog. It’s certainly a must-read column). Recently, CSGV Director of Communications Ladd Everitt met with Brian Borgelt, the former owner of Bull’s Eye Shooter Supply, while spending time in Tacoma, Washington. Bull’s [...]
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 [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Violence Policy Center). Washington, DC–The U.S. House of Representatives today passed a National Rifle Association-backed bill sponsored by Representative Travis Childers (D-MS) that would virtually wipe out any regulation of guns by the District of Columbia, endangering citizens, visitors, and public officials while adversely [...]
We are pleased to post this special commentary from Cathie Whittenburg, Director of the New England Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence, also an affiliate group of the Freedom States Alliance. In Washington D.C., H.R. 6691 Strips Local Control From the District of Columbia To Enact Its Own Measures To Reduce Gun Violence I’ve always admired [...]
The good citizens of our nation’s capitol are held hostage by the gun lobby that continues to abuse its power — with the help of a patsy Congress — to dictate the public safety policies of the District of Columbia. Currently, the gun lobby is frantically trying to eviscerate the sensible gun regulations that D.C. [...]
(We are pleased to post the following action alert from the Coalition To Stop Gun Violence). Recently, the gun lobby achieved a long-sought goal when the Supreme Court repealed the District of Columbia’s popular handgun ban in the case of D.C. v. Heller. Apparently not satisfied with this success, the National Rifle Association (NRA) is [...]
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 [...]
The District of Columbia enacted new and revised regulations to comply with the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that held that DC’s handgun ban was unconstitutional. Although GunGuys believes that the Supreme Court’s ruling in Heller was a craven political decision that ignored over 200 years of legal and historical precedent, the District was left no [...]
Click here to read the Supreme Court’s decision in District of Columbia v. Heller. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Sally Slovenski (617) 923-6490, sally@freedomstatesalliance.org Scott Vogel (312) 474-1339, scott@freedomstatesalliance.org Despite FSA’s Strong Disagreement With the Conservative Majority’s Ruling, the Supreme Court’s Decision Does Not Prohibit Effective Measures From Being Enacted, Such As Universal Background Checks On [...]
According to the Chicago Tribune’s DC political blog, The Swamp: Barack Obama moments ago made his first public comment on the 5-4 Supreme Court ruling striking down the District of Columbia’s handgun ban. The candidate issued a highly guarded written statement that compliments the Court for “much-needed guidance to local jurisdictions across the country” but [...]
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 [...]
A report from ABC on June 12th stated: The nation’s leading gun control group filed a “friend of the court” brief back in January defending the gun ban in Washington, D.C. But with the Supreme Court poised to hand down a potentially landmark decision in the case, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence fully [...]
The looming Supreme Court decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, a case challenging DC’s 30-year-old handgun ban, seems to be completely off the radar. Although there was a dramatic surge of attention when the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in March, very few articles, editorials, and news stories are being written about the long [...]
Click here to see the official transcript of oral arguments to the Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller. To hear audio of the oral arguments click here. Official – Subject to Final Review IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES: DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, : ET AL., Petitioners v. DICK ANTHONY HELLER. No. [...]
New York Times: Justices Hear Gun-Control Case. Based upon the arguments before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, the justices appeared likely to issue a ruling that will please neither side entirely — and guarantee that the meaning of the Second Amendment will continue to be debated. The arguments on Tuesday ranged from the semantic — [...]
A new Washington Post poll finds that 59% of Americans support banning handguns, and 76% of DC residents support the District’s Ban:
On March 17th, the New York Times wrote in the paper’s “Supreme Court Memo”: Suppose that after decades of silence on the subject, the Supreme Court was to decide that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to gun ownership, as opposed to a right tied to service in a militia. Such a ruling would [...]
An online article noted fears of more bloodshed to come if the D.C. handgun ban is overturned by the Supreme Court: More handguns — the primary tool of killers in the region — could be trafficked across the District of Columbia’s borders and into neighboring counties if the District’s handgun ban is overturned, county officials [...]
For those just catching up, the Bush administration’s own Solicitor General, Paul D. Clement, submitted a brief to the Supreme Court just hours before the deadline, asserting that the D.C. Appellate Court used the “wrong standard when it struck down the District’s ban on private handgun ownership, and it urged the Supreme Court to return [...]
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 [...]
In perhaps the most well argued op-ed we’ve read in some time about the debate over the Second Amendment, Lee Gaillard writes a brilliant essay in the Seattle Times. We strongly encourage you to read it — and the title nails the issue on the head too. Public Safety Trumps Outdated, Irrelevant Second Amendment Having [...]
A fascinating article by Adam Liptak in the New York Times on Dec. 3rd noted: Robert A. Levy, a rich libertarian lawyer who has never owned a gun, helped create and single-handedly financed the case that may finally resolve the meaning of the Second Amendment. Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the [...]
Looking at the upcoming Supreme Court consideration of whether or not a ban on handguns in the District of Columbia is Constitutional, it is worth perusing the legal thinking on guns of some of the Court’s current members. (It should be noted that gun control has never been struck down by the Supreme Court on [...]
An editorial in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin argues: The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether to review an appeal of a decision that struck down the District of Columbia’s gun law. Courts have ruled for more than a century that the Second Amendment allows reasonable restrictions on possession of firearms, but the federal appeals court for [...]
Although the Supreme Court was widely anticipated to announce on November 13th whether or not it would hear an appeal by D.C. to overturn an appellate ruling and reinstate the District’s handgun ban, Tuesday came and went without a publicly released decision. The Court had been asked by the Mayor of D.C. to review a [...]
In a September 4th op-ed in the Washington Post, the Mayor of Washington D.C., Adrian M. Fenty and its Attorney General, Linda Singer, cut right to the chase of the absurdity of a federal court ruling that would prohibit their city from banning handguns: The next step in the court’s analysis was also extraordinary and [...]
Here’s an interesting piece from the Washington Post about a protest that took place in DC. 32 women dressed in black performed a “die-in” in DC to raise awareness not only of the tragedy at Virginia Tech, but to show how loose gun laws directly made those deaths possible. The 32 women dressed in black [...]
The DC Court of Appeals announced yesterday that it will refuse to hear arguments about the DC handgun ban. A clearly conservative 2-1 court overturned the ban earlier this year, and now the full 10 person court has declined to hear the case at all. A federal appeals court in Washington refused yesterday to revisit [...]
The Washington Post is reporting that the city of Washington, DC will appeal that politically motivated ruling issued by a judge at a District Court there. As well they should– that ruling would invalidate the DC handgun ban, as well as give the gun lobby ammunition to fight years upon years of reasonable gun legislation [...]
The Minnesota Daily lays out the issue of gun violence in black and white: this isn’t an issue of politics, it’s an issue of safety. And right now, we’re choosing against the safety of Americans and for gun lobby profits. Earlier this month, a federal appeals court struck down a law in the District of [...]
The acting chief of DC’s metro police department checks in on the politically motivated decision made about the handgun ban in that city last week. The decision, made by a 2-1 conservative Court of Appeals, went against not only common sense and years of judicial precdent, but against the handgun ban– a law that the [...]
Two gigantic editorials dropped today about the politically motivated ruling that came out of the D.C. Circuit Court’s appeals court. Judge Lawrence Silberman ruled, against years of precedent, that the Second Amendment supposedly grants gun guys the “right” to own any and all firearms they wanted. Of course, the NRA has jumped on the ruling [...]
Looks like Jesse Jackson has been reading our site. He publishes an editorial about the D.C. Court ruling in the Chicago Sun-Times, and pretty much echoes our thoughts exactly. Like many cities, the District of Columbia has a crime problem. It is getting worse, not better, as a new wave of drugs drives new gang [...]
An appellate District of Columbia Circuit Court has made an unprecedented and dangerous decision involving the Second Amendment in the case of a Washington, DC handgun ban. The majority opinion of the three person court concluded that the Capital’s handgun ban is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, and that the Amendment supposedly grants an “individual [...]
The candidates for the 2008 Presidential race are already testing the waters, and citizens around the country are making it clear that one of the big issues will be the same as a major issue in the last election: we need to stop gun violence in this country, and we need stronger gun laws to [...]
Out of all the people you’d think would be able to keep their firearms out of criminal hands, you’d think the Department of Homeland Security would be able to do it. But apparently even they can’t make sure their guns stay safe. The Department of Homeland Security said yesterday that it is investigating how four [...]
Sad news over the weekend from Washington, DC, where a former Bush administration official killed his son and then himself with a shotgun after an argument. William H. Lash III, 45, was an assistant secretary of commerce from 2001 until last year, then returned to teach at George Mason University Law School in Arlington, where [...]
CBS News has posted a profile of Jim Brady, the Reagan Press Secretary whose life was almost ended by a hollow point bullet from the gun of John Hinckley, Jr. Last month, a federal judge granted Hinckley – who has been allowed occasional one-day outings – multiple three- and four-night visits to his parents. They [...]
The Washington Post has laid down a blistering editorial against Rep. Mark Souder, who, as a member of Washington, D.C.’s city council, is targeting D.C.’s gun laws, some of the most clear and strict in the country. NOT SATISFIED to be a Republican congressman from Indiana, Rep. Mark Edward Souder also enjoys assuming the role [...]
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