An important battle is won in Chicago, but the war on gun rights still rages

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by Gerard Valentino

After way too many years, the day of liberation for Chicago’s law-abiding citizens is finally at hand. In a long-anticipated ruling, the United States Supreme Court struck down the long-standing Chicago ban on firearm possession and returned a fundamental right to the citizens.

Now, just as the Founding Fathers envisioned, law-abiding Chicagoans can defend their homes and loved ones without fear of being thrown in jail by Chicago Mayor Richard Daley’s anti-gun Gestapo.

Make no mistake, by demanding that Chicagoans obey their anti-gun lunacy, the mayoral administration shredded any semblance of individual rights. Over the years, Daley and his predecessors have used the gun ban like a club, beating Chicagoans into submission under the guise of public safety.

There is nothing safe about leaving innocent people to be preyed upon by armed thugs. That is all Daley’s pet gun ban scheme accomplished over the years. Daley even demanded that shooting an armed home invader be considered a criminal act, just as our sitting president voted to criminalize self-defense while a member of the Illinois legislature.

Now, finally, the citizens of Chicago can defend their lives and loved ones with a gun, which remains the best self-defense tool ever devised. Finally, law-abiding citizens can view their home as a safe haven from the killing fields of Chicago.

Over a recent weekend some estimates claim that up to 54 people were shot in the violence that has plagued Chicago. That alone is proof that Mayor Daley’s anti-gun schemes are ineffective. Now that honest citizens can once again own guns for self-defense, it is going to further prove he is not only a bad mayor, but a liar.

NRA Opposed To Kagan Nomination To U.S. Supreme Court

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Joint Statement by Wayne LaPierre, NRA Executive Vice President & CEO,
and Chris Cox, Executive Director of NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action

There may be no vote a United States Senator casts that is more important than a vote to confirm a nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. Now that the Court has clearly stated that the Second Amendment is a fundamental, individual right that applies to all law-abiding Americans, NRA members and gun owners expect a nominee to the Court to fully support, defend and preserve that freedom.

We have carefully examined the career, written documents and public statements of nominee Elena Kagan and have found nothing to indicate any support for the Second Amendment. On the contrary, the facts reveal a nominee who opposes Second Amendment rights and is clearly out of step with mainstream Americans.

Therefore, the NRA is strongly opposed to Kagan’s confirmation to the Court.

In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, she refused to declare support for the Second Amendment, saying only that the matter was “settled law.”

This was eerily similar to the scripted testimony of Justice Sonia Sotomayor last year, prior to her confirmation to the Court. When pressed on the Second Amendment then, Sotomayor also referred to the issue as “settled law.”

But in the recently decided case of McDonald v. City of Chicago, Sotomayor ignored the “settled law” of the Heller decision and signed a dissenting opinion that declared, “I can find nothing in the Second Amendment’s text, history, or underlying rationale that could warrant characterizing it as ‘fundamental’ insofar as it seeks to protect the keeping and bearing of arms for private self-defense purposes.”

It has become obvious that “settled law” is the scripted code of an anti-gun nominee’s confirmation effort. The NRA is not fooled. No member of the U.S. Senate should be either.

NRA First Vice-President speaks out on H.R. 5175, the so-called “DISCLOSE ACT”

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by David Keene

I have been an NRA Board member for some years and currently serve as NRA’s First Vice-President – that you may know.

What you may not know is that I have been in the forefront of the fight against liberal attempts to tilt the political playing field their way for decades through what they like to call campaign finance reform.

This is a battle that began in the seventies when I put together the case that went to the United States Supreme Court known as Buckley v. Valeo. I was a vocal opponent of the so-called McCain-Feingold “reforms” that shackled groups like the NRA in recent years, and I have served as a First Amendment Fellow at Vanderbilt University’s Freedom Forum.

I can assure you that I would never countenance a “deal” of the sort [some say] the NRA made with Congress to further Democratic attempts to restrict political speech. I consider such restrictions to be not only repugnant, but blatantly unconstitutional, an opinion shared by NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre and Institute for Legislative Action Executive Director Chris Cox.

Governor Strickland and Congressman Kasich Headline Sportsmen’s Rally

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Ohio Governor Ted Strickland and his challenger this fall, Fox News Commentator and former Congressman John Kasich, will be the Keynote Speakers at the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation’s (USSAF) 14th Annual “Save Our Heritage” Rally to be held Saturday September 25, 2010 at the Aladdin Shrine Temple in Columbus.

“Sportsmen represent the backbone of Ohio’s conservation effort,” said USSAF President and CEO Bud Pidgeon. “We’re honored that both Governor Strickland and Congressman Kasich will be joining us in recognition of the role sportsmen play in making Ohio one of the best states in the country for wildlife.”

The event, sponsored by Gander Mountain, is a chance for citizens from across Ohio to gather and celebrate the victories of sportsmen and sportswomen everywhere and to raise the funds necessary to ensure the future of our hunting, fishing and trapping heritage.

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