Hunting With A Handgun

Normally Ol’ Squeeze here is going to be telling you about hunting situations, but as you can tell by this website’s sections I am very interested in and a supporter of the Second Ammendment Foundation (SAF) and the National Rifle Association (NRA.)

This news story came across my computer this morning and I just wanted to share it with you.

When the debate over the carrying of concealed weapons raged in Kansas, critics warned that violence would ensue and that more children would die in accidental shootings because of ready access to handguns carried by a parent.

According to state authorities, neither has happened.

Since January 2007, more than 15,000 Kansans have become concealed carry permit holders, and, according to the Attorney General’s Office, not a single one has committed a crime using a handgun.

“I’m not aware of any incidents in which a concealed carry permit holder used a handgun in the commission of a crime,” said Chuck Sexson, director of the Attorney General’s Concealed Carry Unit.

Read the full article here: http://www.kansasliberty.com/liberty-update-archive/25aug2008/ags-office-has-issued-15-000-concealed-carry-permits/

The article was first called to my attention here:
http://crazedpw.blogspot.com/2008/08/15000-concealed-carry-permits-issued-in.html

Just goes to show, good people, obeying the laws and having every right to carry a handgun.

Squeeze

Nationwide Reaction to Supreme Court Ruling Regarding Citizens Right to Own Firearms.

Read the following posts on the NRA – Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA)

Wilmette, Illinois Suspends Local Hangun Ban.

Ted Nugent Ashamed that any Member of the Supreme Court would have Voted Against this Ruling.

NRA Sues San Francisco to Overturn Handgun Ban.

The times they are a changin’.

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Landmark Ruling: U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Americans to have handguns in their homes for protection. June 27, 2008.

The Supreme Court, splitting along ideological lines, today declared that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to own guns for self-defense. This ruling strikes down the District of Columbia’s ban on handgun ownership as unconstitutional.

The 5 to 4 decision, written by Justice Antonin Scalia represented a monumental change in federal jurisprudence.

It said that the government may impose some restrictions on gun ownership, but that the District of Columbia’s toughest rules in the nation ban went too far.

Scalia wrote that the Constitution leaves the District a number of options for combating the problem of handgun violence, “including some measures regulating handguns.”

“But the enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table,” he continued. “These include the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used for self-defense in the home.”

Scalia was joined by the most consistently conservative justices — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., Anthony M. Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr.

Justices John Paul Stevens, David H. Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Stephen G. Breyer voted against the ruling.

The court also held unconstitutional the requirement that shotguns and rifles be kept disassembled or unloaded or outfitted with a trigger lock. The court called it a “prohibition against rendering any lawful
firearm in the home operable for the purpose of immediate self-defense.”

Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the presumptive Republican presidential nominee quickly put out a statement endorsing the decision, calling it a “landmark victory” for Second Amendment rights. “Today’s ruling . . .
makes clear that other municipalities like Chicago that have banned handguns have infringed on the constitutional rights of Americans,” McCain said.

Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.), the Democrats’ all but certain nominee, also issued a statement saying that “I have always believed that the Second Amendment protects the right of individuals to bear arms, but I also identify with the need for crime-ravaged communities to save their children from the violence that plagues our streets through common-sense, effective safety measures.