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From: NRA-ILA Daily Site Update and Reason.com (Part II)
The Supreme Court Takes on Guns, Again
As libertarian-leaning constitutional scholars Kimberly C. Shankman and Roger Pilon argued in a 1998 paper for the Cato Institute that examined, and attacked, the courts' long history of suppressing and ignoring the Privileges or Immunities Clause, the clause's purpose was to "mak[e] explicit the implicit connection between natural rights and constitutional government." And as Damon...

From: NRA-ILA Daily Site Update and Reason.com
The Supreme Court Takes on Guns, Again
Brian Doherty | Thursday, October 01, 2009 3:30 PM
"It has been only a year and a season since the Supreme Court shook the world of Second Amendment jurisprudence with the historical D.C. v. Heller decision. In that case, the court declared for the first time that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms against infringement by the federal government—at least commonly...

Respect for the Constitution and the Second Amendment is a Citizen's duty, without regard to Political Party. - Heilung
From NRA Daily Email:
Legislators Will File Brief In McDonald v. Chicago Case
Friday, October 09, 2009
As we reported in last week's Grassroots Alert, the U.S. Supreme Court will soon hear the landmark Second Amendment case of McDonald v. Chicago. The case will address the application of the Second Amendment to the states through either the Due Process...

To Henigan’s credit (PartI), he does stay focused about 90 percent of the time in arguing against ideas that really are propounded by lots of mainstream gun rights advocates.

Guns, Democracy and the Insurrectionist Idea

The same cannot be said of Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea by Horwitz and Anderson. The Horwitz/Anderson thesis is that the National Rifle Association is an “insurrectionist” organization; that scholars such as Nelson Lund, Don Kates and...

Bad to Worse : Antigun Books
Two new books by prominent gun-banners lay out the newest set of talking points for anti-gunners and the media to follow in their continuing attempt to rid us of our pesky Second Amendment rights.
by DAVE KOPEL
TWO OF THE TOP THINKERS at America’s largest gun-ban organizations have written new books, giving anti-gunners in the media plenty of new material to fawn over.
Dennis Henigan, the Brady Center’s chief lawyer, is the author of Lethal...