Tag Archive: 2nd amendment

on February 13, 2014 in World News

Calif. concealed weapon law tossed by fed appeals court

      Calif. concealed weapon law tossed by fed appeals court divided federal appeals court on Thursday struck down California’s concealed weapons rules, saying they violate the Second Amendment right to bear arms. By a 2-1 vote, the three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said California was wrong to require applicants to show good cause to receive a permit to carry a concealed weapon. “The right to bear arms includes the right to carry an operable firearm outside the home for the lawful purpose of self-defense,” Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain wrote for the majority. Judge Sidney… View Article

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on February 10, 2014 in World News

Supreme Court Asked to Clarify What it Means to ‘Bear’ Arms

        Supreme Court Asked to Clarify What it Means to ‘Bear’ Arms You might think the question would be settled by now, but the U.S. Supreme Court has yet to opine on whether the Second Amendment right to “bear” arms for self-defense extends outside the home. We may soon get an answer. Lyle Denniston, writing for the Constitution Daily, reports about two gun rights cases that may get a hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court. Both cases, dealing with restrictions on the ability of minors to possess weapons in public, hinge on the difference between the right… View Article

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on February 3, 2014 in World News

Arizona Legislation Nullify All Federal Gun Laws?

                        Arizona Legislation Nullify All Federal Gun Laws? The campaign to stop federal violations of the Second Amendment at the state and local level got two big boosts late last week with the introduction of the Second Amendment Preservation Act in Arizona and an important endorsement for a similar bill pending in Florida. Along with eight other sponsors, Arizona state Senator Kelli Ward introduced the Second Amendment Preservation Act in the Grand Canyon State. SB1294 prohibits the state from enforcing “any federal act, law, order, rule or regulation that… View Article

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on January 28, 2014 in World News

Ending State’s Cooperation with Federal Gun Laws

                      Florida Considers Bill Ending State’s Cooperation with Federal Gun Laws On January 27th Florida state representative Dane Eagle (R-Cape Coral) put forward a bill to prevent any “agent of the state or its political subdivisions [from participating] with or [assisting] federal agents in the enforcement of federal firearms laws.” According to the Tenth Amendment Center, the bill also bars the state from “[providing] material support of any kind to federal agents in the enforcement of these laws.” Eagle explained the bill thus: The Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution… View Article

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on January 9, 2014 in World News

Grandmother Shoots Armed Robber to Defend Granddaughter

                    Grandmother Shoots Armed Robber to Defend Granddaughter On January 5th, 63-year-old grandmother Elzie Pipkins shot and killed an armed robber who was targeting her house for the second time in a matter of weeks. The robber, Devon Antonio Young, had robbed Pipkins’s Shreveport, Louisiana, home in mid-December, stealing her .38 revolver. Thereafter Pipkins went to a pawn shop and bought another revolver so she would be able to “protect her own.” According to the Shreveport Times, on Sunday night Pipkin heard her granddaughter talking about a man walking toward the front… View Article

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on January 8, 2014 in Right Edition

We are Back – Gun Control – Gun Registry

Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, appeared on Fox News Sunday shortly after Carlee Soto, sister of Newtown shooting victim, and told host Chris Wallace that he was unsatisfied with Congress simply defeating the proposed Manchin-Toomey bill in April, and that most current gun restrictions were endangering unarmed Americans by creating dangerous gun-free zones. “We’re not...

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on January 4, 2014 in World News

Shooting rampages could be stopped by quick-thinking civilians

                            90% of shooting rampages could be stopped by quick-thinking civilians: expert Police eye new tactics, quicker response to halt shooters Mass shootings like the ones that have occurred in recent years in Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Colo., have tripled in recent years, according to a study set to be published next week for the FBI. Researchers looked at active shootings in public settings where the primary motive appeared to be mass murder and at least one victim was unrelated to the shooter, according to Yahoo News,… View Article

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on January 4, 2014 in World News

Virginia Gun Sales Hit 24-Year High in 2013

                      Virginia Gun Sales Hit 24-Year High in 2013 Virginia State Police say background checks for gun sales in 2013 “represented the highest volume of transactions since the inception of Virginia’s background check program” in 1989. Gun sales on Black Friday “also set a record.” According to the Huffington Post, “gun transactions in Virginia totaled 479,253 for the year.” This is nearly an 11 percent increase over the previous sales record of 432,387 transactions in 2012. Gun store owners say the continuing gun control rhetoric coming from President Obama and the… View Article

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