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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.
AmmoSeek almost out of beta
We’ve been working hard on squashing bugs with AmmoSeek in order to ready it for more widespread use. If you check it out right now you’ll notice the graphic at the top of the page has “Beta” stamped next to the header. Once this disappears most of the obvious bugs should be gone and the data should be more or less stable.
As always, including during the beta period, please send us some feedback either through comments here on the blog or via the contact page on the main site to let us know of any bugs we may not have found or just to tell us what you think of the tool.
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The Armed Citizen- NRA News
- Washington Post calls for more gun control laws, including a new semi-auto firearms ban, blames U.S. gun laws for Mexico violence and makes excuses for Eric Holder February 5, 2012
- Virginia: Bills saying it is all right to use deadly force against intruders in your home are moving easily through the General Assembly. February 4, 2012
- Washington: Two Firearms-Related Bills Going to the House Floor! February 3, 2012
- GOA Alerts
