The City of Petaluma, California has adopted a requirement that all firearms within the city limits must be disabled with a locking device or placed in a locked container inside the home. But, is that constitutional under a landmark 2008 Supreme Court ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller? On Page 58 of that ruling, […]
Woke ACLU now ignoring both First and Second Amendment violations
By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project Special to Liberty Park Press (Editor’s Note: The Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project wouldn’t be possible without you. Click here to make a tax-deductible donation to support pro-gun stories like this.) For more than 70 years, the American Civil Liberties Union’s official position on the Second Amendment […]
Is Media Manipulating Public Opinion with ‘Camo-Speak’?
An old strategy of the gun prohibition movement is being identified with a new slang term—“camo-speak”—which translates to substituting terms like “gun safety” and “gun reform” for gun control, and the establishment press appears to have embraced that deceptive vocabulary so completely that it is misleading. One organization, WaGuns.org, even has T-shirts emblazoned with the […]
Retired Justice Stevens to High Schoolers: ‘Demand Repeal of 2A’
Retired U.S. Supreme Justice John Paul Stevens has inserted himself into the gun rights battle now being waged across the media and is counseling high school demonstrators to “demand a repeal of the Second Amendment” in an Op-Ed piece published by the New York Times. So much for the argument that nobody is trying to […]
D.C. Appeals Court Strikes ‘Good Reason’ CCW Requirement
In a stunning victory for concealed carry advocates, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued a permanent injunction against enforcement of such a requirement in Washington, D.C., but the ruling could have a ripple effect. The ruling is another court victory for the Second Amendment Foundation in a case called Wrenn […]
As Gorsuch Takes Seat, 2nd Amendment Issues Face SCOTUS
Newly-sworn Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch will be rolling up his sleeves and getting to work almost immediately on various issues facing the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). Among the potential cases, according to at least two media reports, are those dealing with Second Amendment rights outside the home. According to NBC News, “Another […]