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Has the gun control movement fizzled?
Over the past year, an assortment of court rulings, state legislative measures, strong gun sales and highly publicized political meltdowns — especially the voter recall effort of pro-gun control lawmakers in Colorado — have left gun control proponents struggling to regain lost traction.
They’re not likely to retake lost ground anytime soon, according to OpenCarry.org’s John Pierce, who told Examiner this week that, for the time being, gun control “seems to have run out of steam entirely.”
That leaves everyone else on stronger footing to focus on correcting the many 2nd Amendment infringements that still criminalize full and free access to firearms.
From Examiner:
Yet even those restrictions have faced tough sledding in the courts. A court decision recently forced the Washington, D.C. city council to revise an ordinance so that residents could apply to law enforcement for permission to carry concealed handguns. But that still leaves D.C. as a “may-issue” zone, where the burden of proof falls to the citizens to seek government’s permission to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights.
http://personalliberty.com/gun-control-movement-fizzled/
Or did so many other issues that BHO created distract from the Gun Grabbers?
Posted on October 3, 2014 by Ben Bullard
Progressive support for government’s effort to exert control via innovative interpretations of the 2nd Amendment isn’t likely to die off. But – at least for now – it appears to have slithered back into its dark hole.Over the past year, an assortment of court rulings, state legislative measures, strong gun sales and highly publicized political meltdowns — especially the voter recall effort of pro-gun control lawmakers in Colorado — have left gun control proponents struggling to regain lost traction.
They’re not likely to retake lost ground anytime soon, according to OpenCarry.org’s John Pierce, who told Examiner this week that, for the time being, gun control “seems to have run out of steam entirely.”
That leaves everyone else on stronger footing to focus on correcting the many 2nd Amendment infringements that still criminalize full and free access to firearms.
From Examiner:
“All in all the anti-gun movement is appears going no-where fast,” claims OpenCarry.org’s Mr. Pierce. Looking ahead, Pierce predicts that the Supreme Court will eventually grant certiorari to a case “so as to resolve the split of authority as to whether the Second Amendment provides a fundamental right to carry guns outside the home.”
The right to bear arms in some states has suffered at the hands of state or local lawmakers who’ve passed legislation that forces residents to demonstrate to police that they “need” concealed carry permits — and only in self-defense situations.Yet even those restrictions have faced tough sledding in the courts. A court decision recently forced the Washington, D.C. city council to revise an ordinance so that residents could apply to law enforcement for permission to carry concealed handguns. But that still leaves D.C. as a “may-issue” zone, where the burden of proof falls to the citizens to seek government’s permission to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights.
http://personalliberty.com/gun-control-movement-fizzled/
Or did so many other issues that BHO created distract from the Gun Grabbers?
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