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SB 140 to be challenged in court!

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SB 140, by Senator Leno, was signed into law despite strong opposition against the bill by CRPA. The bill proposes to allow the State DOJ to use background check fees for purposes other than their authorize purpose. CRPA and NRA have filed a law suit challenging the illegal use of the fees. The court case is pending at this time.

Hold on to your guns!
This year the CRPA is tracking an unprecedented number of bills – 51 to be exact – that could impact firearms owners and sportsmen. Most of this legislation is vehemently ANTI-GUN AND ANTI-HUNTING and outright attacks your gun rights.

For more information on these bills visit our Bill Status Update page here.

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United Nations Adopts Arms Trade Treaty

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NRA Encourages United States Senate to Defend Second Amendment

Fairfax, Va. – The United Nations, with the support of the United States of America, voted today in the General Assembly to adopt an Arms Trade Treaty.

“This treaty disregards the Second Amendment to our Constitution and threatens individual firearm ownership with an invasive registration scheme,” said Chris W. Cox, executive director of the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action. “It is a sad, yet telling, day when the President of the United States and his administration refuse to defend America’s Constitution on the world stage.”

With a passing yet non-binding acknowledgement of individual rights in the preamble, the treaty itself threatens civilian firearm ownership. The NRA has always maintained that any Arms Trade Treaty must respect the Second Amendment right of individual self-defense. This can only be accomplished by expressly excluding civilian firearms ownership from its scope, which this treaty fails to do. Continue reading →

Briefs Submitted in Challenge to San Francisco Gun Laws

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Briefs Submitted in Challenge to San Francisco Gun Laws that May Define Contours of Second Amendment Protections

On February 7, 2013 the NRA, the San Francisco Veteran Police Officers Association and several San Francisco resident civil rights activists, filed their opening brief in Jackson v. San Francisco in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The appeal seeks to overturn a November 2012 District Court ruling that upheld San Francisco’s draconian ordinances requiring handguns to be kept under lock and key at all times unless actually being carried, and banning the sale of common “hollow-point” self-defense ammunition. The plaintiffs are represented by the attorneys at the law firm of Michel & Associates, P.C.

This strategic Second Amendment civil rights case was filed in 2009 as one of the first “test” cases in the wake of the Supreme Court’s confirmation that the Second Amendment secures an individual, fundamental rights to arms in Heller v. District of Columbia. The Jackson case seeks to resolve many of the issues left unanswered by the Supreme Court in Heller, including the appropriate standard of review for future Second Amendment challenges, as well as the scope of the Second Amendment’s protections for ammunition and commercial transactions, among other things.

On February 14, four important amicus curiae or “friend-of-the-court” briefs were filed in support of the NRA’s efforts in the Jackson case.

Amici curiae Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence (CCJ), represented by constitutional law scholar and former Dean at Chapman University School of Law, Dr. John Eastman, and esteemed appellate litigator and former Chief Counsel for the Pacific Legal Foundation, Anthony T. (Tom) Caso. CCJ’s brief addresses the appropriate standard of review applicable to Second Amendment challenges. The brief explains that restrictions on fundamental rights are subject to the strictest judicial review, and that the fundamental right to arms is no different. Continue reading →