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John Lott, Ilya Shapiro talk Heller and Gun Ban case with Judge Napolitano
Last week Fox News’ Judge Andrew Napolitano welcomed guests John Lott and Ilya Shapiro to discuss the McDonald “Gun Ban” Supreme Court case and 2nd Amendment state incorporation. Not surprisingly, all 3 guests agree that the 2nd Amendment should apply to the states.
The expectation among the experts is that the Supreme Court will rule in favor of 2nd Amendment incorporation when they release the opinion sometime this summer (June or July).
Proof: Open Carry is a deterrent
From Georgia, comes this incident where open carry of firearms itself helped deter a robbery.
Matt Brannan and J.P. Mitchell were dining in the Wafflehouse on Barrett Parkway at I-575 in Kennesaw at 4:45 in the morning recently when a scout for an armed robbery crew entered the restaurant to case it. At the time, Matt and J.P. thought he looked a little suspicious, as he was wandering around the small restaurant like he was looking for someone. Unknown to Matt and J.P., two cars full of armed robbers were parked behind the restaurant waiting for the scout’s report.
The scout saw that two of the customers were wearing holstered 1911 Springfield Mil-Spec .45 pistols, and he immediately turned and left the store.
Meanwhile, conscientious Cobb County Police Officer D. Lowe had noticed suspicious cars sitting behind the restaurant in the dark and decided to investigate. He caught men with masks and rifles who had been preparing to rob the Wafflehouse. The criminals informed the police that they had changed their mind upon discovering armed customers and were waiting for Matt and J.P. to leave. Ironically, the police car was pulling in to the parking lot just as Matt and J.P. were driving away. In other words, had Matt and J.P. not been armed, the robbery probably would have occurred before the police intervened.
Inside the Supreme Court Gun Ban Case: Gura vs. NRA
Brian Doherty at Reason.com has an excellent article outlining the battle between Alan Gura and the NRA in regards to the Chicago Gun Ban case that is set to be heard by the Supreme Court on March 2nd, 2010. So the McDonald vs. Chicago case seems to have become the Gura vs. NRA case.
Alan Gura, lawyer for the Chicago plaintiffs whose right to effectively defend their lives in their own homes has been abridged by the city’s ban on handgun possession, previously won 2008’s D.C. v. Heller, the case establishing that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess weapons against federal encroachment. Gura is responsible, then, for the rehabilitation and revival of one constitutional amendment already. In McDonald, rather than merely extending the Second’s reach, he is aiming to rehabilitate and revive the 14th Amendment as well.
However, the Supreme Court’s decision in late January to grant 10 of Gura’s 30 minutes of oral argument time to the National Rifle Association (NRA) seems likely to hurt chances that the Court will take the more dramatic route laid before them. The NRA isn’t a plaintiff in McDonald (though they were parties in an earlier version heard by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, which combined separate challenges to Chicago’s gun bans), and the organization’s intent is to emphasize the more limited and traditional method of incorporating the Second Amendment against the states via the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment.
To sum up a very complicated legal argument quickly, Gura’s McDonald briefs do not rely solely on the traditional due process method. He also argued that 14th Amendment’s Privileges or Immunities Clause was more clearly intended to accomplish such incorporation, in terms of both legal logic and history.
This is almost a “libertarian” vs. “Republican” argument taking shape. Gura’s effort in using the Privileges or Immunities clause is much more far-reaching and thus more “libertarian” than the NRA’s effort to use, the more typical for incorporation, Due Process clause.
It could be said that winning this case on Privileges or Immunities grounds would make everyone, not just gun owners, more free. Winning the case on Due Process grounds would be more specific and mostly help gun owners alone.
Take the time to read the entire article if you are interested in this case.
AmmoSeek gets mentioned on DownRange TV
Michael Bane from DownRange.tv gives AmmoSeek a great mention in their weekly video podcast.
Bane says, “There’s a new way to find ammunition on the Internet. It’s called AmmoSeek.com.”
You can watch it here or embedded below. The AmmoSeek.com mention begins around the 4 minute mark.
Thanks for the mention, Michael!
Now Seeking Two New Calibers: 10mm and 7.62×59R
We’ve listened to some of the initial requests for adding new calibers to AmmoSeek. We now have 10mm handgun ammo and 7.62×59R rifle ammo in place.
AmmoSeek Has Launched! Find cheap ammunition right now.
We are ready to open AmmoSeek to the masses, however many they may be. We are now out of beta mode and are beginning to promote the use of the site more aggressively.
Feel free to tell all your friends that AmmoSeek is now here to serve all of your ammunition hunting needs!
Now that it has launched we can start working on some new enhancements and features we have in mind.
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Gun control has seen better days
Following the 2008 Heller decision, and the much anticipated Supreme Court decision on the Chicago Gun Ban case,there’s likely never been a more positive time for gun rights advocates than right now.
The New York Times is reporting on this very fact in an article entitled, “Seeing Loose Gun Laws as Still Too Tight“:
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s permissive gun laws gained national attention last year when a man openly carried an AR-15 rifle to a protest outside a speech by President Obama.
Now, gun rights advocates are hoping for even fewer restrictions on where they can have a firearm. Among their top goals is to make Arizona the third state where it is legal to carry a concealed weapon without a permit. Bills in the House and the Senate would also eliminate background checks and training classes for people to carry hidden guns.
“That’s sheer insanity,” said M. Kristen Rand, legislative director for the Violence Policy Center. “If you remove the background check requirement, you’re literally writing a death sentence for law enforcement officers, family members, just people in the street.”
But supporters say criminals will carry concealed weapons regardless of the law, so gun restrictions affect only law-abiding citizens.
“All we’re doing is handcuffing good people, restricting their constitutional, God-given right to carry and perhaps their ability to defend their families,” said State Senator Russell Pearce, a Mesa Republican sponsoring the bill.
The bill comes a year after Arizona eased restrictions on gun owners, most notably giving people the option of carrying a weapon into a bar or restaurant that serves alcohol unless the establishment has banned firearms.
It also comes amid a national trend of states loosening gun laws. In 2009, states passed 47 laws easing restrictions, more than three times the number of new laws tightening them. Forty-eight states allow people to carry a concealed weapon; all but Alaska and Vermont require a permit.
Read the entire article here. This is very encouraging, but we must not rest in the fight against the “antis”.
Interesting read on the NRA’s role in Supreme Court Chicago gun case
The Cato Institute’s Ilya Shapiro has some interesting words about the NRA’s role in the Chicago gun ban case that is going to be heard by the United States Supreme Court on March 2nd later this year.
Sadly, it’s also typical of how the NRA has behaved throughout this case and before that during the Heller litigation — sabotaging Alan [Gura] at every turn and showing again and again that, even in the face of winning arguments that fully support its legal positions, the NRA prefers to seek glory for itself rather than presenting the strongest case for its purported constituency of gun owners.
Read the full article at Cato.org.
Chicago gun ban Supreme Court case discussed on Freedom Watch
Earlier this week the upcoming landmark Supreme Court case to decide if the 2nd Amendment applies to the states was discussed on Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Freedom Watch show. Check it out below.
The Armed Citizen- Ohio: Soon-to-be Marine Fires At Intruder March 9, 2010
- Oklahoma: Oklahoma City police describe relative’s shooting as self defense March 7, 2010
- Tennessee: Knife-Wielding Attacker Shot Dead March 7, 2010
- NRA News
- Click Here for News Relating To McDonald v. Chicago March 20, 2010
- Illinois: Gun advocates push for concealed carry March 12, 2010
- Maryland: Several gun control bills proposed March 12, 2010
- GOA Alerts
- Obama Threatening to Pass Anti-gun Health Care by Cheating February 25, 2010
- GOA's State of the Union Update on Gun Rights January 14, 2010
- ObamaCare Has Revealed The Moral Bankruptcy Of The Senate January 7, 2010
- Knox Update
