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Gottlieb: Democrats’ Court Packing Attempt Threatens the Heller and McDonald Decisions

March 6, 2025April 17, 2021 by Dan Zimmerman

From the Second Amendment Foundation . . . The proposal by four anti-gun Capitol Hill Democrats to pack the U.S. Supreme Court by adding four positions is “an outrage” and an attempt to prevent the high court from accepting cases and handing down rulings favorable to the right to keep and bear arms, the Second … Read more

Why We Need the Supreme Court Back in the Second Amendment Business

March 6, 2025September 26, 2020 by TTAG Contributor

By Miguel A. Faria, MD Some readers were surprised to learn from my previous article on this subject that the Supreme Court of the United States has not made it clear that the right to keep and bear arms is protected outside the home. “How can that be?” they asked. Further perplexed, they wondered, “But … Read more

WaPo Editorial Board Begs the Supreme Court Not to Take Another Second Amendment Case

March 6, 2025May 27, 2020 by Dan Zimmerman

Last week — a holiday week — the Supreme Court relisted all ten Second Amendment cases that are awaiting cert decisions. As the term winds to a close, the Washington Post’s editorial board has taken a preemptive shot in the Court’s direction letting Justice Roberts them know that everything is just peachy in the world … Read more

Emergency Declarations Due to Coronavirus Show the Importance of Laws Protecting Gun Owners’ Rights

March 6, 2025March 11, 2020 by TTAG Contributor

From the Second Amendment Foundation . . . Now that North Carolina’s Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper has declared a statewide emergency because of the spreading Coronavirus, the Second Amendment Foundation is reminding all Americans, especially Tar Heel State residents, their right to bear arms will not be impaired because of an important 2012 court victory … Read more

Dick Heller Predicts a Supreme Court Win for New York State Rifle & Pistol Association

December 2, 2019 by TTAG Contributor

By Jeff Hulbert Dick Heller says when he strode down the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2008 after his unprecedented Second Amendment victory against a Washington, DC gun ban, he thought there was only smooth sailing ahead for the firearms community. Heller declares now that he knows better. With his visit to the … Read more

The Supreme Court Has Given Arms to Every Fanatic to be Used Against Government

August 21, 2019 by Dan Zimmerman

Once again, the true implications of what Supreme Court actually did with its groundbreaking decisions in Heller and McDonald is dawning on the anti-gun left. Since then, the Court sat back for years while some lower courts thumbed their noses at the basis for those decisions. But now, with the slight rightward shift thanks to … Read more

The Heller Decision’s ‘In Case of Confrontation’ Language Could Help Expand Gun Rights Still Further

June 12, 2018 by TTAG Contributor

By MarkPA There has been much debate about the Second Amendment grounded in several significant Supreme Court Decisions: D.C. v. Heller, McDonald v. City of Chicago, and Caetano v. Massachusetts. But what do these decisions stand for? What do they portend for the future? This may develop from the proposition articulated in Heller: “. . … Read more

Illinois Launches Pre-McDonald Gun Control Bill Blitz

April 26, 2010 by Robert Farago

Sometime this summer, The U.S. Supreme Court will strike down Chicago’s handgun ban. While the Highest Court in the Land’s™ ruling on the McDonald v. Chicago case will likely leave a bit of wiggle room for state and local firearms restrictions, The Windy City’s gun control laws will have the wind knocked out of their sails (leading to lots of gun sales). In the run up to that event, prior to the legislature’s May 7th HFTH (Head For The Hills) deadline, the Illinois state legislature is trying to ram through as much gun control legislation as it can. To wit (provided and summarized by the duh duh DUH National Rifle Association):

House Bill 180, introduced by State Representative Deborah Graham (D-78), would establish a state-based licensing scheme for Federal Firearms License (FFL) holders that sell handguns.

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