Gun Rights

NRA Announces 2010 Intercollegiate Rifle Club Championship National Rifle Association Fairfax, Va. – -(AmmoLand.com)- This spring the NRA Collegiate & Schools Program will be introducing a NRA Intercollegiate Rifle Club Championship that will be open to all levels of collegiate shooters. This new championship will include NRA College Rifle Clubs, Varsity Rifle Teams, ROTC Teams, and independent shooters, for which there is currently no national championship. “As a result of the new championship, we hope to see a boosted level of awareness toward collegiate shooting that will help foster rifle programs across the nation,” said Tori Croft, National Manager of NRA Collegiate & School ... Read Full Story

Date Set For Court To Hear Oral Arguments McDonald v. City of Chicago Second Amendment Case National Rifle Association Washington, DC - - (AmmoLand.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in the McDonald v. City of Chicago case on Tuesday, March 2, 2010. The McDonald case is one of several that were filed immediately after last year’s decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, in which the Court upheld the Second Amendment as an individual right and invalidated Washington, D.C.’s ban on handgun possession, as well as the capital city’s ban on keeping loaded, operable firearms for self-defense in ... Read Full Story

Bloomington, Indiana Herald-Times Treats Law-Abiding Gun Owners like Registered Sex Offenders National Rifle Association Bloomington, Indiana - -(AmmoLand.com)- On November 30, 2009, the Bloomington Herald-Times made the following announcement: “This week, HeraldTimesOnline.com will launch its new gun permit database. You’ll be able to search gun permit records by county, city or town and street.” The Herald-Times has begun receiving calls and emails, and their response is a defiant defense of their online gun permit database. Anyone who visits the newspaper website will be able to search the number of permits on a given street or neighborhood. Although at this point the names and house ... Read Full Story

New Jersey Firearms Task Force Legislation Sticks it to Honest Gun Owners – Again! Please Immediately Call Members of the Assembly Law & Public Safety Committee. New Jesery Trenton, NJ - - (AmmoLand.com) - On Thursday, December 3 at 2:00 pm in State House Annex Room 12, the New Jersey Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee will hold a hearing on three bills of importance to New Jersey’s law-abiding gun owners. It is important that members of the Assembly Law & Public Safety Committee hear from you on Thursday. A4308 and A4304 have been introduced in an effort to address serious problems in New ... Read Full Story

AzCDL Joins In Amicus Brief On Supreme Court Gun-Ban Case Arizona Citizens Defense League Glendale, AZ - - (AmmoLand.com) - The Arizona Citizens Defense League has joined with other pro-rights individuals, groups and several district attorneys in the filing of an “amicus (friend of the court) brief” with the United State Supreme Court in the case of McDonald v. Chicago, the most critical Second Amendment case since the Heller decision upheld our individual right to keep and bear arms. In April 2009, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in Nordyke v. King that the Second Amendment is “incorporated” through the ... Read Full Story