Category: Gun Control

Amendment Would Block “Operation Choke Point”

On Thursday morning in the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, Sen. Michael Crapo (R-Idaho) introduced an amendment to the Financial Regulatory Improvement Act to prohibit federal banking and credit union regulators from implementing or participating in the Obama Administration’s Department of Justice originated “Operation Choke Point.” In his remarks, Crapo aptly compared the administration’s logic in launching Operation Choke Point to the strategy used in the 2002 Tom Cruise movie “Minority Report,” as if it could be determined who might commit a crime (in this case fraud) ahead of any actual evidence of wrongdoing. In the real-world case, however, entire industries were targeted.

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Gun Control

Student Sues Texas College Over Gun Rights Sign

Houston, TX—Blinn College student Nicole Sanders filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the public institution near Houston on Wednesday after being told by an administrator last February that she would need “special permission” to display a gun rights sign and collect signatures for her student group on campus. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) assisted Sanders in filing the federal lawsuit, the tenth lawsuit filed as part of FIRE’s national Stand Up For Speech Litigation Project.

The lawsuit challenges Blinn’s policy of restricting speech to a tiny “Free Speech Area,” as well as the process that led the college to take over a month to approve a palm-sized card Sanders wanted to hand out to students explaining their Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights. Read more

Gun Control

CCRKBA Launches New Effort to “Cultivate” Grassroots

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has launched a new national campaign aimed at countering the multi-million dollar gun control lobbying effort of billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s “Everytown for Gun Safety.”

“While Bloomberg is spending millions of dollars to create Astroturf,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan M. Gottlieb, “our mission is to cultivate honest grassroots activism.”

CCRKBA has already aired a 30-second spot on some key cable networks, and the full program will have spots appearing on the following networks: FOX Business, SPIKE, Velocity, American Heroes, History and H2, TNT, Do It Yourself, AMC, Discovery and Investigation Discovery, the Outdoor Channel, the Sportsman Channel, CMT, Trinity Broadcast Network, Fox News, The Blaze and the Weather Channel. Read more

Gun Control

SAF Wins Preliminary Injunction In Challenge To New DC Gun Law

BELLEVUE, WA – The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) today won a preliminary injunction against the District of Columbia and Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier’s enforcement of a requirement to provide a “good reason” when applying for a concealed carry permit.

Judge Frederick J. Scullin ordered that the city is “enjoined from denying handgun carry licenses to applicants who meet the requirements of D.C. Code 22-4506(a) and all other current requirements for the possession and carrying of handguns under District of Columbia law.” Read more

Gun Control, Self Defense

Arizona Navy Vet Gets Guns Back, Thanks SAF

BELLEVUE, WA – A retired Navy veteran in Arizona whose gun collection had been seized by Glendale police now has his firearms back, the Second Amendment Foundation revealed yesterday.

SAF had intervened in the case of Glendale resident Rick Bailey early last month, taking on funding of the case and working with Chandler, Ariz., attorney Marc J. Victor. Bailey’s case had fired up Second Amendment activists across the country after police confiscated 28 firearms valued at more than $25,000, which Bailey had collected over more than a decade.

Bailey was generous in his praise of SAF’s intervention, noting, “I want to thank Alan Gottlieb and the Second Amendment Foundation for all the help in getting my firearms returned.” Read more

Gun Control

Second Amendment Foundation Sues Feds Over Censorship of 3-D Printing Info

BELLEVUE, WA – The Second Amendment Foundation today joined Defense Distributed of Austin, Texas, in filing a federal lawsuit against Secretary of State John Kerry, the Department of State and other federal officials, seeking to stop the Government’s unconstitutional censorship of information related to the three-dimensional printing of arms.

The Government’s restraint against the publication of this critical information, under the guise of controlling arms exports, violates the First Amendment right to free speech, the Second Amendment right to bear arms, and the Fifth Amendment right to due process, the lawsuit alleges.

SAF and Defense Distributed seek to publish 3-D printing information at no cost to the public. Constitutional attorney Alan Gura of Gura & Possessky leads the litigation team, which also includes William “Tommy” Jacks, Bill Mateja, and David Morris of Fish & Richardson; export control counsel Matthew Goldstein, and constitutional law Professor Josh Blackman.

“Americans have always been free to exchange information about firearms and manufacture their own arms,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “We also have an expectation that any speech regulations be spelled out clearly, and that individuals be provided basic procedural protections if their government claims a power to silence them.” Read more

Firearms, Gun Control

Firearms Industry Execs in DC for Congressional Fly-IN, Cleveland Shoots Itself in Foot for Industry Summits

At the same time, however, Cleveland, Ohio, a growing, vibrant city with good hotels, restaurants and a vibrant social life, effectively told the shooting industry they weren’t interested in their dollars. The City Council passed sweeping gun-control legislation, ranging from redundancies of state laws to local regulations described as a “revenue stream with new fines” that included requirements to report private gun sales to police, restrictions of firearms by anyone under 18 years of age without adult supervision and requirements to report lost or stolen firearms.

“In light of these developments,” blogged the NSSF’s Chris Dolnack yesterday, “NSSF can no longer consider the City of Cleveland a candidate for hosting an event as important to our business as the Industry Summit. Events such as the Summit require a significant investment of our and our members’ dollars and time for the betterment of our industry. NSSF cannot permit that investment to benefit a city whose current leaders will not in turn support our 2nd Amendment rights and the continued success of the firearms industry. “

Firearms, Gun Control

SAF Lawsuit Allowed Chicago Uber Driver to Carry, Defend Self, Others

BELLEVUE, WA — A defensive shooting incident in Chicago involving a legally-armed Uber driver who intervened when a gunman opened fire on a crowd in Logan Square could not have happened without a concealed carry law that was passed by the Illinois Legislature because of a federal lawsuit brought by the Second Amendment Foundation.

No charges will be filed against the unidentified Uber driver, who used his licensed handgun to stop the alleged shooter, a 22-year-old man who now faces criminal prosecution. SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb noted that, had this armed citizen not been present, this incident could have turned out much differently, and much worse. Read more

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