Great news.An act of Congress to stop D.C. from snubbing their nose at the Supreme Court.This new bill labeled the "Second Amendment Enforcement Act" already has the backing of over half of the House of Representatives.That's a clear statement if nothing else.
Gun Rights Dean Anticipates National Support for Capitol Hill Effort to Torpedo Washington, D.C. Assault on United States Supreme Court Heller Decision
From The Wall Street Journal:
WASHINGTON, July 22, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- "America's 80 million law-abiding gun owners will support a developing congressional effort to thwart politicians in the Nation's Capital seeking to undermine the Supreme Court decision in the historic District of Columbia v. Heller case," right to self-defense advocate John M. Snyder said here today. "After the Court threw out the D.C. handgun ban as an unconstitutional violation of the Second Amendment individual right to keep and bear arms, D.C. officials thumbed their noses at the Court," continued Snyder, Manager of Telum Associates, LL.C., and Public Affairs Director of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. "They acted recently to continue the ban on semiautomatic handguns. They told Dick Anthony Heller, who won the case, he still cannot register his .45 caliber Colt 1911 handgun." Snyder, named "dean of gun lobbyists" by The Washington Post and The New York Times, noted that, "H.R. 1399, the proposed Second Amendment Enforcement Act introduced by Reps. Mike Ross (AR) and Mark Souder (IN), to repeal D.C. provisions at issue in the case, already has 247 cosponsors -- well over half the membership of the House of Representatives. H. Res. 1331, by Congressman Souder, would force early consideration of a modified version of the bill if activated by the signatures of 218 Representatives on a discharge petition the Hoosier lawmaker plans to file. "Since the D.C. government thinks it's superior to the Supreme Court, Congress ought to tell gun-grabbing D.C. politicians to take a hike. Souder's move would do the trick. Concerned citizens around the country can support Souder by urging their own U.S. Representatives to endorse H. Res. 1331." The Senate companion measure, S. 1001, by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, already has 47 cosponsors, Snyder reported. "D.C. politicians have treated the Supreme Court with contempt," said Snyder. "They have refused to recognize appropriately the right to self-protection. They have refused to honor freedom of choice of appropriate arms for self-defense by Dick Anthony Heller and others. Congress must not allow the District to get away with it. It should move the proposed Second Amendment Enforcement Act and it should move it soon." Contact: John Snyder 703-212-9863 SOURCE Telum Associates, LL.C. http://www.gunsaint.com http://tinyurl.com/6d5w7b| Member Comments |
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