Second Amendment & the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
The Second Amendment protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms for defense of life and liberty.
In U.S. v. Cruikshank (1876), Presser v. Illinois (1886), Miller v. Texas (1894) and U.S. v. Miller (1939), the Supreme Court recognized that the amendment protects an individual right. It has never taken a different view. However, in Salina v. Blaksley (1905), the Kansas Supreme Court invented the idea that the amendment instead protected a “right” of a person to keep and bear arms only while serving in a state militia, and in U.S. v. Tot (1942), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit advanced the idea that the amendment protects the “right” of a state to have a militia.
In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), the Supreme Court heard its first case specifically centered on whether the amendment protects an individual right to arms. Gun control supporters advanced essentially the "Salina" argument, but the Court, consistent with its previous rulings in Second Amendment-related cases, ruled that the amendment protects an individual right to keep arms and to bear arms "in case of confrontation," without regard to a person’s relationship to a militia.
In McDonald v. Chicago (2010), the court extended the Second Amendment's protection nationwide.
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
It's no coincidence that the politicians who oppose our Second Amendment freedoms also tend to oppose hunting. Direct, ...
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
It's no coincidence that the politicians who oppose our Second Amendment freedoms also tend to oppose hunting. Direct, ...
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
It's no coincidence that the politicians who oppose our Second Amendment freedoms also tend to oppose hunting. Direct, ...
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Chris W. Cox took over as the Executive Director of the NRA Institute For Legislative Action in 2002. ...
Friday, July 20, 2007
Fairfax, VA. - The National Rifle Association’s (NRA) Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre and NRA Political Victory Fund ...
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Anti-gun politicians want to apply RICO racketeering statutes--designed to prosecute organized crime figures--to federal firearm law in an ...
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
That March 14, 2007, New York Times headline trumpeted an editorial excoriating the Court of Appeals for the ...
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
H.R. 1399/S. 1001, the “District of Columbia Personal Protection Act,” introduced in the House by Rep. Mike Ross ...
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Members of the media are invited to pre-register at [email protected] Fairfax, VA - The National Rifle Association is ...
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
An historic decision by a federal appeals court says the Second Amendment protects an individual right, and it ...