News of a recent gun-related Supreme Court opinion is making the rounds via emails and forums, with gun owners making breathless assumptions about the scope and significance of the decision. The case is Class v. United States, in which “A federal grand jury indicted petitioner, Rodney Class, for possessing firearms in his locked jeep, which was parked on the grounds of the United States Capitol in Washington, D. C.”
States United To Prevent Gun Violence opened a “gun store” in NYC as a hidden camera social experiment. One problem: Not only was the store not real, neither were the customers — they were actors. Click to see what lengths the group went to deceive the public.
It’s true that Republican control of the Senate and House should make bad gun rules less likely to happen in the next two years. But there are worrisome problems in Colorado, Washington state, and Connecticut that means gun owners can’t rest on their laurels now.
If six states — Montana, West Virginia, South Dakota, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alaska — vote out Senate Democrats, gun rights are probably safe for a couple of years.
U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake’s decision in Kolbe v O’Malley, said “assault weapons” and their standard-capacity magazines “fall outside Second Amendment protection as dangerous and unusual.” If it’s not overturned on appeal, the real danger in the ruling is its potential to define what guns the public may own. Read this article to learn more.
Why were some major gun groups on opposing sides of the failed Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act of 2014? Read this article to find out.
The recent Abramski v. United States Supreme Court decision is a setback. What’s worse, now it can become the basis for even more bad rulings.