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As you know, the Supreme Court recently ruled that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right. While
this is great news, this ruling is only as good as a future Supreme Court allows it to be. The work of
five Supreme Court justices today can very easily be undone if the current balance of the court tips by one or more anti-gun
justices tomorrow--especially if those justices were to be nominated by an anti-gun President and sent to an anti-gun Senate
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TSA Considers Airport Carry Ban: A recent story in USA Today (to read the story, please click here: www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2008-08-07-tsa-gun-ban_N.htm) reported that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) may weigh in on the issue of legal carry in the unsecured
areas of airports.
| NRA, Heller Take District Back to Court | | | | Friday,
August 01, 2008 | | | Shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the
District of Columbia's gun ban, the District, Mayor and City Council are being sued again over the District's thinly
veiled attempt to continue its restrictions on firearm ownership. D.C. residents Dick Anthony Heller and
Absalom F. Jordan, Jr., in conjunction with lawyers for the NRA, filed a complaint against the District of Columbia and Mayor
Adrian Fenty challenging D.C.'s Firearms Control Emergency Amendment Act of 2008. "The District of Columbia's
so-called 'emergency regulations' prohibit law-abiding citizens from protecting themselves and their loved ones in
their own homes," said NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris W. Cox. "The Mayor and City Council have
proposed a list of regulations that violate the Supreme Court's decision." On June 26, 2008, the U. S.
Supreme Court held in District of Columbia v. Heller, that "the District's ban on handgun possession in the home violates the Second Amendment, as does its prohibition
against rendering any lawful firearm in the home operable for the purpose of immediate self-defense." The
Supreme Court explicitly articulated that handguns are constitutionally-protected, yet the District's Firearms Control
Emergency Amendment Act of 2008 bans all semi-automatic handguns and requires any firearm in the home to be disassembled,
unloaded and secured by locking devices unless there is an "immediate" threat of violence, even for innocuous purposes
such as cleaning. "The D.C. Council and Mayor are demonstrating their arrogant disregard for the Supreme
Court's decision and the safety and liberty of their own law-abiding constituents," concluded Cox. "These elitist
politicians who live under secured protection are continuing to prevent their residents from keeping a functional firearm
in the home for self-defense. NRA will continue to work to restore the rights of D.C. residents." |
Click here to take this week's poll about your latest firearm purchase and internet access. | As mentioned
in last week's edition of our Grassroots Alert, following the Supreme Court's favorable Heller decision,
city officials in Washington, D.C. have been planning to obstruct D.C. citizens from exercising their right to keep and bear
arms, despite the Supreme Court's clear statements. And some in Congress are planning to do something about it. On
Thursday, Representative Mark Souder (R-Ind.) introduced H. Res. 1331, a rule to govern House consideration of a modified version of H.R. 1399--the "District of Columbia Personal Protection Act." |
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