The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) – the trade association for the firearms industry – hailed today’s United States Supreme Court 5-4 decision written by Justice Alito that ruled the individual right to keep and bear arms protected by the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution applies to the states and local government. “Today’s ruling [...]
David Hardy is one of the most foremost Second Amendment attorneys in the country. As a documentarian, his “In Search of the Second Amendment” helped to both define and refine our understanding of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Let’s listen to his comments on McDonald v. City of Chicago: Link: Of Arms and [...]
More on McDonald v. City of Chicago. Ilya Shapiro is a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute and editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review. John Lott is a senior research scientist at the University of Maryland, College Park. Shapiro and Lott were guests on Fox News’ Freedom Watch this week:
Dave Kopel is the Research Director of the Independence Institute, a public policy research organization in Golden, Colorado. Here are his comments after the Oral Arguments on McDonald v. Chicago.
Tuesday’s Supreme Court oral arguments in the case of Otis McDonald, et. al, versus the City of Chicago were not a Heller rematch. They were the next logical step in establishment of the base of legal precedents that will finally decide if the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States is really an [...]
This week’s podcast gives a quick analysis of Tuesday’s McDonald v. Chicago Supreme Court oral arguments. Michael then goes off on the U.S. Forest Service, which is up to its old tricks trying to shut down shooting on public lands… Michael thinks that, sadly, it’s once again time for shooters, hunters and fishermen to stop [...]
As a party to the case, NRA argued before the U.S. Supreme Court today that the Second Amendment protects the fundamental, individual right to keep and bear arms no matter in which city or state one resides. We are optimistic the Court will hold that the Second Amendment applies to state and local governments through [...]
By John Lott: If the government can’t protect its citizens, a majority of the Supreme Court appears to believe that people should be allowed to defend themselves. Does a ban on guns constitute a “reasonable regulation”? Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago sure thinks so. “We have the right for health and safety to pass reasonable [...]
The transcript of the oral argument in McDonald v. City of Chicago (08-1521) is now available. Transcript (PDF)
Michael Bane talks with Jim Shepherd (Shooting Wire) who has been covering Supreme Court cases for 25 years. Jim gives us an overall sense of how the oral argument went.
