GOA Sends: GOA Backing Case Before the Supreme Court

[Colonel Dan, SASS #24025]

Victory would put additional “teeth” in the Heller case

This week, GOA and its foundation filed an
amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court in support of striking
down Maryland’s ban on the carrying of handguns by ordinary citizens unless they
first demonstrate a “good and substantial reason” to law enforcement.

You can help support this legal challenge by clicking here.

While the federal district court in Maryland
had decided the case in Raymond Woollard’s favor, the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Fourth Circuit reversed that decision, using a “balancing test” to come to
conclude that Maryland may override the Second Amendment right to keep and bear
arms in the name of public safety.

Both lower courts used a judicially-created
balancing test, coming to opposite conclusions, thus demonstrating the
illegitimacy of subjective, judge-made tests.

GOA’s position is simple: the Founding Fathers
determined that Americans have the right to bear arms both inside the home and
out, regardless of how “compelling” the state’s desire to infringe their
right.

As the Supreme Court ruled in the
Heller case, the Second Amendment means what it says -- the right to
keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

Our brief in Woollard v. Gallagher
reminds the Court of the absolute nature of the right, leaving no room for
federal judges to “balance” away the guarantee, no matter how strict or loose
the test may be.

Your contribution to Gun Owners Foundation tremendously helps us to support good causes like this Woollard case that is now before the U.S. Supreme Court.

This case was not a previously budgeted item
for GOF, so any support that you can lend will tremendously help.

Gun Owners Foundation exists to protect gun
owners around the country from overzealous prosecutors and to use the ensuing
legal challenges as opportunities to strike down anti-gun
restrictions.

Thank you for your help.

 

[Subdeacon Joe]

Could get interesting in light of http://sassnet.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=210740 - the OR Supreme Court upholding the ban Portland OR has on open carry of loaded firearms.

[Virgil Ray Hality, SASS# 37355]

This is one place I am glad to send $$$ to.