Posts Tagged ‘second amendment’
news9.com–A woman shot and killed a man who was trying to break into her Lincoln County home early Friday morning, authorities said. Sheriff Chuck Mangion said 57-year-old Donna Jackson called 911 around 12:30 a.m. to report that she was home alone and a man was trying to break in her patio door. Jackson told the [...]
Tags: 9/11, Billy Dean Riley, Donna Jackson, Oklahoma, second amendment, self defense
It looks like Mayor Richard Daley’s strict ban on handguns for law abiding citizens in Chicago is headed for the U.S. Supreme Court and hopefully the trash bin after the predictable 5-4 ruling is handed down next year. In McDonald vs. Chicago 76 year old Otis McDonald, who says he was once robbed at gunpoint, [...]
Tags: Chicago handgun ban, Heller vs Washington DC, Mayor Richard Daley, Otis McDonald, second amendment, U.S. Supreme Court
The police can’t be everywhere and they have absolutely no legal obligation or requirement to protect you in the event of an attack anyway. Your self preservation is up to you and you alone. Imagine sitting inside your apartment and someone starts banging on your door. You take a peek through the peep hole and [...]
Tags: 9/11, Brinks Security Alarm Company, firearm, Port Allen Louisiana, second amendment, self defense
The NRA reports it has received several calls recently from members living in our southern border states and they all have the same ring to them. It seems BATFE agents are banging on doors and calling people on the phone who have purchased certain kinds of firearms of the type the deliberate liars in the [...]
Tags: BATFE, Eric Holder, Mexico, NRA, obama administration, second amendment, southern border states
Of the three AR-15s and two shotguns that were stolen from northern California law enforcement vehicles last January four have been recovered and some of the alleged perps involved in the theft are now behind bars charged with federal crimes. All but one of the guns stolen in recent months from Contra Costa County sheriff’s [...]
Tags: criminals, firearm security, law enforcement, police officers, second amendment, stolen firearms
Louisville Kentucky’s New Bethel Church will be sponsoring an “Open Carry Church Service” on Saturday June 27, in celebration of the Fourth of July holiday. This event encourages church members to attend with their unloaded and holstered firearms. The day’s festivities will include a raffle for a free handgun, plenty of patriotic music and some [...]
Tags: firearms, New Bethel Church, Open Carry Church Service, second amendment
Second Circuit Court Judge and U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor sat on the panel which ruled in the case Maloney v. Cuomo that the Second Amendment does not apply to individual states or citizens essentially saying the states do have the ability to ban firearms within their boundaries. According to scotusblog.com the ruling further [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, firearms, Maloney v. Cuomo, second amendment, Sonia Sotomayor, U.S. Supreme Court
In June 2008 the U.S. Supreme Court handed down their decision in DC v Heller (by the way Dick Anthony Heller is a Special Police Officer at the DC Federal Judicial Center) that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ensures an individual citizens’ right to possess firearms for private use. Justice Antonin Scalia delivered [...]
Tags: DC v Heller, firearms, gun rights, San Francisco, second amendment, U.S. Supreme Court
I happened upon a Wall Street Journal editorial today describing how the left wing Democrats have lost the debate on “gun control.” (Man I hate that term. It should be called “society control” because that is truly what the modern liberals are all about.) The column spoke of the recent passage by the U.S. Senate [...]
Tags: firearms, HR 627, national parks, second amendment, Senator Tom Coburn
Had this incident turned out differently the usual anti Second Amendment loons would have come pouring out of the woodwork appearing on most of the cable news shows demanding more ‘common sense’ gun control. Since the good guys came out on top and saved their lives by using a firearm to defend themselves you won’t [...]
Tags: armed robbers, college student, second amendment, self defense