In anticipation of House Bill 182 being transmitted to Governor Pat Quinn (D), anti-gun groups are mounting a campaign urging the Governor to veto this import pro-gun reform bill.

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Anti-Gun Groups Launch Campaign Against Important Gun Reform in Illinois

The Louisiana House Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice sided with law-abiding gun owners by defeating a bill that would have prohibited firearms on property belonging to the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board.

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Attack on the Second Amendment Defeated in Louisiana!

(We are pleased to post the following press release from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence).

For Immediate Release

Contact: Thom Mannard (312) 341-0939

Definitive Ruling Holds that Gun Violence Prevention Laws Do Not Violate the Second Amendment; Decision Is Major Setback To Gun Lobby’s Radical Agenda To Eradicate Nation’s Gun Laws

(June 3, 2009, Chicago) – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit upheld the constitutionality of the Chicago and Oak Park handgun bans by a 3-0 decision. The 7th Circuit said that the Supreme Court’s ruling in Heller that stripped D.C. of its handgun ban only applies to the federal government. Chicago enacted its handgun ban in 1982.

The Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence (ICHV) praised the ruling.

“The 7th Circuit arrived at the correct decision. This ruling saved lives,” said Thom Mannard, Executive Director of ICHV. “The debate over Chicago’s handgun ban is not an abstract legal argument, but about the right of governments to enact sensible policies to keep deadly guns out of our communities. It’s time that more judges, lawyers and legal scholars understood that these important decisions are more than just legal theories, but about preventing gun deaths and injuries.”

Gun violence prevention advocates expect the gun lobby to continue to press its case all the way to the Supreme Court. U.S. Circuit Judge Frank Easterbrook, joined by Circuit Court Judges Richard Posner and William Bauer, said they were bound to follow the precedent of the U.S. Supreme Court in its ruling on the Second Amendment not applying to states. All three federal judges were GOP appointees.

The case is National Rifle Association of America v. City of Chicago, 08-4241, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (Chicago).

“If Chicago’s handgun ban is ever overturned by the Supreme Court, it would open the floodgates to challenge every gun control measure in the country. Even more ominous, those facing criminal charges or even those convicted of gun violations could now challenge their status on Constitutional grounds,” said Chester Kulis, a retired federal law enforcement officer, attorney and current board member of ICHV.

The Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence said that the Court’s ruling made crystal clear that sensible gun laws are Constitutional. ICHV pressed state lawmakers to continue to pass stronger gun laws to save lives, such as requiring common sense background checks on all gun sales to keep deadly weapons out of the hands of drug dealers, gun traffickers, domestic abusers, and mentally unstable individuals.

Relative to the rest of the country, Illinois has enacted a host of gun violence prevention policies. Illinois mandates that residents apply for a Firearm Owner Identification Card (FOID) to possess a firearm and ammunition. In addition, state law does not preempt local municipalities and communities to enact their own gun laws; and Illinois is one of only two states, along with Wisconsin, that prohibits the carrying of concealed weapons in public.

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Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence Praises Appellate Court Ruling Protecting Chicago’s ‘Life-Saving’ Handgun Ban

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Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor has drawn criticism for saying in an October 2001 speech, “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”
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Random Observations On The Sotomayor Nomination

As we have reported, Governor Phil Bredesen (D) vetoed House Bill 962.

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Governor Vetoes Tennessee Restaurant Carry Bill!

Yesterday, the Assembly Committee on Appropriations passed Assembly Bill 962. Senate Bill 585 was also passed by the Senate Appropriations Committee.

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Vote on Two Anti-Gun Bills Could Come Next Week in California!

Unless you’ve taken a very long Memorial Day vacation, you’ve no doubt heard the big news.

President Obama has picked an anti-gun radical to replace Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court.

Obama’s pick is Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who is currently on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second District. There she has racked up an anti-Second Amendment record and has displayed contempt for the rule of law under the Constitution.

The Heller decision put the Supreme Court in support of the Constitutional protection of the individual right to keep and bear arms. Sotomayor, a politically correct lover of centralized government power (as long as she is part of the power elite), immediately went into counter-attack mode against the Heller decision.

Sotomayor was part of a three-judge panel earlier this year which ruled in Maloney v. Cuomo that the Second Amendment does not apply to the states. As she and her cohorts claimed, the Supreme Court has not yet incorporated the states under the Second Amendment. Until then, she believes, the Second only applies to the District of Columbia.

This is pure judicial arrogance — something Sotomayor relishes (as long as she is one of the ruling judges). In fact, protection of the right to keep and bear arms was a major objective for enactment of the Fourteenth Amendment, as recently freed slaves were being disarmed and terrorized in their neighborhoods.

But Sotomayor disdains this important right of individuals, as indicated by an earlier opinion from 2004. In United States v. Sanchez-Villar, she stated that “the right to possess a gun is clearly not a fundamental right.”

Sotomayor has held very anti-gun views, even as far back as the 1970s. Fox Cable News reported yesterday that in her senior thesis at Princeton University, she wrote that America has a “deadly obsession” with guns and that the Second Amendment does not guarantee an individual right to firearms ownership.

Sotomayor’s Second Amendment views go hand in hand with her politically correct views on the law and the role of judges.

In a speech given at Duke University in 2005, she made it abundantly clear that judges are involved in making policy. Realizing that this did not sound very judicial (even though most judges act on this basis), Sotomayor tried to laugh off her brazen admission: “I know this is on tape and I should never say that, [audience laughing], because we don’t make law — I know. Um, okay. I know, I’m not promoting it, I’m not advocating it.” The audience continued to laugh. They got the joke.

But Sotomayor’s joke will be on us and our liberties if she gets confirmed to the Supreme Court. And that is why we need to start contacting our Senators early and often, urging them to vote against this dangerous nomination.

As we have reported, Mayor Richard Gray (D) reintroduced a proposal that would require gun owners to report a lost or stolen firearm within a 72-hour period or face fines and possible imprisonment.

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Pennsylvania: Vote on Lancaster “Lost or Stolen” Ordinance Expected on Tuesday, June 9

Louisiana House members are set to debate a contentious proposal to allow concealed handguns on university campuses.
Floor debate is set for Thursday on a bill that would force public and private colleges in the state to allow people with concealed handgun permits to carry those weapons on the campuses, which are now so called “gun free” zones.

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Louisiana: House to debate guns on campus

A new law allowing loaded guns in national parks and wildlife refuges will not take effect until next year, the Obama administration said.
A spokeswoman for the Interior Department said that because the credit-card law won’t take effect for nine months, the gun measure also would be delayed.

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National Parks right-to-carry law to take effect in February