Federal Firearm Laws

The anti-hunting extremists at the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) have turned up the pressure on the North Carolina House Finance Committee in an effort to pass Senate Bill 460, or another bill to which they can attach its language. Time continues to run out on their ability to pass this attack on [...]

Source: NRA-ILA Grassroots Alerts

Source: NRA-ILA Hunting and Conservation Updates

The Supreme Court yesterday gunned down the Windy City’s attempt to undermine the Second Amendment rights of its residents. In the closely divided McDonald v. Chicago decision, the justices expanded on 2008′s District of Columbia v. Heller ruling by making it clear that the right of the people to keep and bear arms applies in [...]

In the “living Constitution” era, the Supreme Court rediscovers original intent and rightly rules that the right to bear arms applies to all Americans just as the rest of the Bill of Rights does. It’s hard to conceive how the justices could have decided otherwise. But by the narrowest of margins — 5-4 — they [...]

In a sharply divided 5 4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that state governments are not able to ban most Americans from owning most types of handguns. The majority decision, written by Justice Samuel Alito, stated that firearms are “essential for self defense.” Predictably, gun control advocates bemoaned the ruling. But the court’s decision [...]

Judicial liberals have been discovering the virtues of legal precedent now that conservatives are finally winning a few cases at the Supreme Court, but in yesterday’s major gun rights case that all went out the window. The four liberal Justices rejected a 2008 landmark precedent as well as one of their own bedrock Constitutional principles. [...]

City Hall is rewriting Chicago’s gun ordinance to tighten registration requirements in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling Monday that crippled the city’s handgun ban and granted citizens across the country the right to legally keep weapons in their home for protection. Source: nra-ila-updates

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley said he’s disappointed by Monday’s widely expected Supreme Court decision that Americans have a right to own a gun for self defense anywhere but promised to soon push for a new ordinance regulating handguns in the city. Source: nra-ila-updates

Residents of a Chicago neighborhood where an 80 year old man shot and killed a burglar who’d broken into his home are pleased the U.S. Supreme Court supports their right to own guns for self defense. Source: nra-ila-updates