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Prior to UT Shooting, Gun Rights Advocate John Lott Was Scheduled to Speak

(Sept. 28) -- As police authorities continue to investigate the frightening events involving an armed gunman that occurred this morning at the University of Texas, the Surge Desk has learned that University of Maryland researcher John Lott, a gun rights advocate and author of "More Guns, Less Crime," was scheduled to speak...

High Court's Gun Ruling Won't End Local Skirmishes

WASHINGTON (June 28) -- By extending the Second Amendment right to bear arms to state and local governments, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday opened the door to legal challenges to gun laws across the country. Whether the decision will change the status quo, though, remains unclear. The case, McDonald v. City of Chicago,...

Supreme Court Ruling Backs Individual Gun Rights

(June 28) -- The U.S. Supreme Court declared Monday that individual gun rights under the Second Amendment apply and may be used to block enforcement of certain restrictive state and local gun control ordinances. By a 5-4 vote along the court's familiar ideological lines, the justices jeopardized two Illinois ordinances and...

Gun Advocates Hit Va., DC, in Double-Barreled Protest

(April 19) -- Protesting what they perceive as a growing threat to the Second Amendment, armed gun-rights activists gathered today in Virginia as their firearms-free brethren congregated in nearby Washington, D.C. Thanks to a law signed by President Barack Obama, a few dozen protesters were allowed to gather at two...

Background on gun rights

The right to keep and bear arms (often referred as the right to bear arms or to have arms) is the enumerated right that people have a personal right to firearms for individual use, and a collective right to bear arms in a militia.

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