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ANJRPC is one of four State
Firearm Associations that organized a coalition of more than 40
similar groups to file a collective “friend of the court” brief
in the historic pending U.S. Supreme Court Case District of
Columbia v. Heller. That case, originally brought to overturn
Washington, DC’s handgun ban, brings before the highest court in
the land for the first time the issue of whether the Second
Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms.
The brief can be viewed online
here.
In recent years, anti-gun politicians, academics, and activist
judges have attempted to interpret the Second Amendment out of
the Constitution by claiming that it protects only the
collective right of states to maintain militias, and that
individuals have no rights under the Second Amendment. Some
courts have adopted this twisted interpretation recently.
The brief filed on behalf of State Firearm Associations is one
of many other briefs filed by other interested parties to weigh
in on the historic case. Together with the other briefs, the
State Firearm Association brief forms one piece of a much larger
puzzle, which collectively represents the interests of the
entire Second Amendment community. The entire set of case
filings can be viewed online
here.
The coalition of State Firearm Associations was led by the Texas
State Rifle Association (TSRA), the New York State Rifle &
Pistol Association (NYSRPA), the Delaware State Sportsmen’s
Association, and ANJRPC. The initiative was begun by Jim Dark
and Tom King, the respective leaders of TSRA and NYSRPA.
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