National Politics

Op-Ed: Mexican Standoff On Second Amendment

12:05am Friday, July 10, 2009
By Dan Gifford and Michael J. Krauss Big lies die slowly. After a claim by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that 90% of Mexican drug dealers' military weapons (machine guns, hand grenades and missiles) come from American gun stores was exposed as a lie several months ago, it's back — this time with the imprimatur of the Government Accountability Office. A June 21 CBS "60...

Two-thirds of State Attorneys General File Amicus Brief Supporting Second Amendment Incorporation

12:10am Thursday, July 09, 2009
The National Rifle Association is reporting that two-thirds of the nation's attorneys general have filed an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to grant certiorari in the case of NRA v. Chicago and hold that the Second Amendment applies to state and local governments through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This bi-partisan group of 33 attorneys general (which, as...

Faux pro-gun group endorses Sotomayor for U.S. Supreme Court

12:10am Wednesday, July 08, 2009
The most recent issue of the National Shooting Sports Foundation newsletter, Bullet Points , observes that the faux gun group known as American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA), has endorsed the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court Justice. As former NRA President Sandy Froman recently pointed out , Sotomayor has a narrow view of the Second Amendment that contradicts the...

Watch lists, guns and government

12:10am Tuesday, July 07, 2009
By Bob Barr as published in The Atlanta Journal Constitution The secret government "Terrorist Watch List," reportedly already swelled to more than 1.1 million names, will have an addendum, if gun control advocates in Congress have their way. This new addendum — also to be cloaked in secrecy — would empower the U.S. Attorney General to deny a person the ability to exercise their Second Amendment...

AG Cordray: State of Ohio will join friend of the court brief asking for Second Amendment incorporation

12:10am Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Appearing Sunday evening as a guest on the Firearms Forum radio show with host Jim Irvine, Attorney General Richard Cordray announced that, in anticipation of the Supreme Court of the United States taking such a case, he has agreed to sign a brief being prepared by the State of Texas in support of the Second Amendment applying to the states. "Since the Heller decision there have been either two...

The Second Amendment and the Slow Erosion of Time

12:10am Monday, June 29, 2009
By Dave Yost A year ago, the United State Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment's right to bear arms belongs to individuals, not to state militias. The decision started more legal arguments than it settled, and the battle is still raging in the lower courts. The Supreme Court decision, District of Columbia v. Heller *, has already produced plenty of litigation. Since it's a Supreme Court...

Second Amendment supporters must oppose Sotomayor

12:05am Monday, June 29, 2009
By Sandy Froman Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's first nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, has a narrow view of the Second Amendment that contradicts the Court's landmark decision in District of Columbia v. Heller . A heated debate has started in the U.S. Senate over her opposition to the right to keep and bear arms. This issue, which has decided the fate of presidential elections,...

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