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“Over the last few years observers of the Supreme Court have noticed a trend among some of the justices to cite the decisions of foreign courts as part of the relevant precedent in deciding the cases before them,” writes Jordan J. Ballor. “This tendency to invoke foreign jurisprudence is becoming more troubling as it becomes clearer that the moral consensus that once united Western nations has almost entirely broken down.” - [Read more]

District of Columbia residents will be able to buy handguns starting next Tuesday. - [Read more]

On what would normally be a slow summer weekday, the three employees at Gretna Gun Works Inc. frantically tended to a crush of customers admiring the racks of shotguns and rifles lined up behind the glass counter. - [Read more]

Plaintiff Dick Heller, who successfully challenged the District`s ban on handguns, stands outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. Exactly two weeks ago, we told Mayor Adrian Fenty and the D.C. Council that the overbearing emergency legislation regulating gun purchases, registration and ownership they passed would face a lawsuit. The week before, we told them how to possibly avoid litigation. City Hall did not listen. Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the District remains onerous. - [Read more]

Students and faculty with concealed weapons licenses and legal possession of a firearm should be allowed to carry their guns on campus. But opponents of such a policy argue that doing so would only add another layer of unpredictability to unstable situations or that campus police are already able to properly respond and sufficiently protect students. Such arguments represent a chronic and potentially lethal nanny–state mentality. - [Read more]

A salute to Nova Scotia Justice Minister Murray Scott, and Liberal Leader Stephen McNeil, for refusing to climb on the bandwagon being rolled out (yet again) by Ontario`s Liberal government and Toronto Mayor David Miller. - [Read more]

Dick Heller, whose lawsuit overturned the District`s handgun ban, is now officially authorized to keep a revolver in his Capitol Hill home. - [Read more]

The usual flood of editorials and blog posts after a major presidential debate were particularly harsh on Hillary Clinton this morning following Tuesday night’s Democratic debate at Drexel University. Opinion leaders said her performance reinforced negative stereotypes that Clinton is shrill, calculating and evasive. - [Read more]

David Zucker, the director who brought us `Airplane!` and `The Naked Gun,` turns his sights on anti-Americanism. - [Read more]

D.C. officials are trying to beat back an effort by some lawmakers to send a bill to the House floor that would bring D.C. gun laws into compliance with the Heller decision. The gun bill, co-sponsored by Reps. Mike Ross (D-Ark.) and Mark Souder (R-Ind.), was introduced previously and stalled. The measure now stands a good chance of gaining approval by the House of Representatives because of an unusual legislative maneuver, congressional staff members and observers said. - [Read more]

The House this week sounded a small note of equity and restraint in a landscape of ever-escalating fees and taxes for Massachusetts residents, rejecting Gov. Deval L. Patrick’s call for a 150 percent increase in gun licensing fees. - [Read more]

Boone County is the latest to take up the issue of concealed carry. Board members approved a symbolic resolution in support of it. Just like in Winnebago County, the issue of concealed carry has come up several times in Boone County. On Wednesday, it joins 77 other counties that have stated their support for the house bill on concealed carry in Springfield. - [Read more]

The county will continue concealed carry discussions, but may move forward on a separate resolution that asks state lawmakers not to further restrict gun rights. - [Read more]

Emboldened by a U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning local government gun bans, gun-rights supporters commandeered the Lake County Board`s public comment session Tuesday to lobby for the Second Amendment. - [Read more]

LaSalle County Board members voted unanimously Thursday to put a referendum on the Nov. 4 ballot asking voters if they support the right to carry concealed firearms. - [Read more]

Woodford County voters will weigh in this November on a topic that some gun-rights advocates think has been ignored too long in Springfield. The County Board on Monday agreed to put a non-binding referendum on the general election ballot asking whether residents want state legislators to enact laws allowing trained citizens to carry concealed firearms. - [Read more]

There has been substantial debate on the subject of conceal carry in The Daily Texan lately, but regrettably, much of the information that has been presented seriously misrepresents and even falsifies the critical legal and moral aspects of concealed carry. - [Read more]

And after two hours of talking, and a pre-convention buildup here in Denver in which Democrats have received lots of positive coverage in this critical swing state, you’d have to say that the news is pretty good for McCain. The undecideds have plenty of problems with him, and they can’t stand George W. Bush, but they seem more deeply concerned about Obama than McCain, because they have still not answered the threshold question about the Democratic nominee: Is he ready? - [Read more]

Don Kates asks, “Are this year’s U.S. presidential candidates avoiding the gun issue?” - [Read more]

There are at least two strong justifications for national reciprocity. The first springs from the Second Amendment itself, where we read that the right to keep and bear arms “shall not be infringed.” With these words, our Founders were hedging in a natural right and thus placing it off limits from federal or state government interference. - [Read more]