A National Rifle Association magazine cover depicting New York mayor and gun control campaigner Michael Bloomberg as an octopus is raising questions because the imagery has a history as an anti-Semitic symbol.
The National Rifle Association urged a judge to overturn San Francisco's voter-approved handgun ban, arguing the city can't ban the guns because state law allows them.
Consider for a moment that the Fourth Amendment also speaks of a "right of the people," and like the Second Amendment neither creates the right nor empowers national government to enforce the provisions of the acknowledged right beyond the sphere of national government.
The US Congress has approved the first major gun legislation since 1994, improving background checks on buyers.
The US Congress has approved the first major gun control law since 1994, improving background checks on buyers... ...The law clarifies what mental health records must be included in checks and gives funds to states to help automate the processing of records.
LAST month, the Supreme Court agreed to consider District of Columbia v. Heller, which struck down Washington's strict gun ordinance as a violation of the Second Amendment's "right to keep and bear arms."
For many reasons, we are all far better off after our seven years with George W. Bush than we would have been without him and his Republican Party. I have been working this issue out for some time.
The scene was common enough in American politics: 500 people seated in a ballroom at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C., television cameras glaring at a podium, and a full cast of 2008 presidential candidates set to speak. Only the event wasn't common at all.
The Supreme Court will hear case challenging the District of Columbia gun law. The D.C. Circuit held that the law violated the Second Amendment.
The Second Amendment provides that "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 issue turns on whether that right to bear arms represents an "individual" or "collective" rig …
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 — The Supreme Court agreed today to consider an issue that has divided politicians, constitutional scholars and ordinary citizens for decades: whether the Second Amendment to the Constitution protects an individual right to "keep and bear arms."
When released for put and take hunters like Cheney, pen raised birds can barely walk or fly -- or see, thanks to the goggles. They don't know how to forage or hide in the wild and sometimes have to be kicked to "fly" enough to be shot.
For the first time in 70 years, the US Supreme Court may decide next week whether to examine the question of the right to bear arms, something which is fiercely upheld by millions of Americans.
So what should a mayor do? Just let constituents call his weekly radio program on WABC — the one called "Live From City Hall ... With Rudy Giuliani" — and whine and complain and get in his face without answering back?
An example: When a National Rifle Association member opposed a ban on assault rifles in 1994, Mr. Giuliani really got annoyed.
Am I dreaming? Instead of binding international treaties, President Bush according to top administration officials, favors controlling global warming by letting each country "...make a contribution consistent with its national circumstances" Does he favor the same approach to nuc …
The press piled into a hall near a pile of NRA swag bags to watch Rudy stride into the ballroom. Would the tough guy kowtow to the powerful lobby he once lambasted as extremist? Would he pull a Romney and pretend to be an avid hunter of small varmints?
Rudolph W. Giuliani appeared today before the National Rifle Association — a group he once likened to extremists — and defended his very vocal past advocacy of tougher gun laws while affirming the right of law-abiding citizens to bear arms.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 — Rudolph W. Giuliani appeared today before the National Rifle Association — a group he once likened to extremists — and defended his very vocal past advocacy of tougher gun laws while affirming the right of law-abiding citizens to bear arms.
Glossing over the less appealing line items on his gun control resume, ex-NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani presented himself as sympathetic to the aims of the National Rifle Association and pledged, as president, to protect gun rights.
Rudy Giuliani said Sept. 11 changed his perspective on gun rights, but was unapologetic for the gun laws he imposed as New York City mayor at the National Rifle Association's "American Values" summit Friday.
The sportsmen (and the politicians who love them) are set to converge on the capital this weekend as the National Rifle Association holds a "Celebration of American Values."
I've been thinking a bit about the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.
It's not the big sit-down dinner and speech at the Yacht Club that local Republican Party planners had hoped for, but the former U.S. senator from Tennessee and now presidential candidate, Fred Thompson, will be in Lakeland at 11 a.m.
Excerpt: "The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world, a report released on Tuesday said.
On August 28, Rev. Jesse Jackson is organizing an anti-gun protest in up to 25 cities nationwide.
The social justice types should instead aim their ire at the storefront merchants and dealers who push death in the name of the U.S. Constitution and the National Rifle Association.