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Latest Gun Rights News

Read the latest news from the frontlines of the battle to protect our right to keep and bear arms.

1/28/2009 - Dudley Brown interviews Robert Johnson of GONV

NAGR Executive Director Dudley Brown and GONV Director Robert Johnson at the 2010 SHOT Show

While staff from the National Association for Gun Rights was in Las Vegas, Nevada for the 2010 SHOT Show, Executive Director Dudley Brown sat down with Robert Johnson, Director of Gun Owners of Nevada, to discuss Nevada's political landscape.

Click here to read the full interview on our blog.

1/12/2009 - U.S. agrees to timetable for UN Gun Ban

The United Nations and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are moving forward with their plan to confiscate your guns.

The United States joined 152 other countries in support of the Arms Trade Treaty Resolution, which establishes the dates for the 2012 UN conference intended to attack American sovereignty by stripping Americans of the right to keep and bear arms.

Working groups of anti-gun countries will begin scripting language for the conference this year, creating a blueprint for other countries when they meet at the full conference.

The stakes couldn't be higher.

Former United Nation's ambassador John Bolton has cautioned gun owners about the Arms Trade Treaty and says the UN “is trying to act as though this is really just a treaty about international arms trade between nation states, but there’s no doubt that the real agenda here is domestic firearms control.”

Click here to read the full story on our blog.

1/9/2009 - Washington Post Reporter tries to get handgun permit in post-Heller world

Washington Post tries to get a D.C. handgun permit

Recently, Washington Post reporter Christian Davenport tried to get a handgun permit from the District of Columbia. Mr. Davenport’s lengthy article outlines just how little the vaunted Heller decision really did for residents of the District of Columbia.

While the handgun ban was overturned by the Supreme Court, the scope of the decision was extremely narrow. That lack depth has allowed D.C. to create enough bureaucratic hurdles to make it as difficult as possible to get a handgun permit.

It took $833.69, a total of 15 hours 50 minutes, four trips to the Metropolitan Police Department, two background checks, a set of fingerprints, a five-hour class and a 20-question multiple-choice exam.

Oh, and the votes of five Supreme Court justices. They’re the ones who really made it possible for me, as a District resident, to own a handgun, a constitutional right as heavily debated and rigorously parsed as the freedoms of speech and religion.

Just more than a year ago, by a 5-to-4 decision, the court struck down the District’s three-decades-old outright ban on handguns — the most restrictive gun law in the country. In District of Columbia v. Heller, Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the court, said the Second Amendment guarantees the right of an individual to bear arms, not just Americans in a “well regulated Militia”; the District’s prohibition was therefore unconstitutional.

Reluctantly, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty’s administration set up a process through which about 550 residents — now including yours truly — have acquired a handgun. But as my four trips to the police department attest, D.C. officials haven’t made it easy.

Which was exactly their intent. The day the Heller decision was announced, Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray (D) vowed that the city was still “going to have the strictest handgun laws the Constitution allows.” Fenty decried the ruling, saying that “more handguns in the District of Columbia will only lead to more handgun violence.”

Under threat of additional litigation, however, the city has already had to ease some of its initial restrictions by greatly expanding the range of gun models, including semiautomatic handguns, residents are allowed to own.

Click here to read the full story and comment on our blog.

1/4/2009 - New Year, Same Congress

I know I don't need to tell you that the allies of the Second Amendment in Washington, D.C. are few and far between.

We have the most anti-gun President of all time in Barack Obama. His henchmen in Congress -- people like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer-- are poised to pursue his radical anti-gun agenda.

Gun rights activists like you and me, must remain vigilant; shining a light on the secret schemes of the gun-grabbers. Grassroots activists must be able to weed through the internet rumors and myths (think of all those SB.2099 emails you've gotten) and get to the truth.

That's why the National Association for Gun Rights created our Billwatch page -- as a resource you can reference whenever you need -- to keep track of gun related legislation in the 111th Congress.

You'll find that we've even collected a number of pro-gun bills which needs your support. Additionally, our staff has ranked each bill on a scale of Strongly Support to Strongly Oppose to let you know where NAGR stands.

Please visit the Billwatch page to stay fully informed on all gun-related bills making their way through Congress.

Visit the Gun Rights Action Center to learn more!
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