Academics For The 2A File Pro-Gun Amicus Brief In Heller

Updated: Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2008, 8:05 am -- Welcome KeepandBearArms.com readers!

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The long-awaited amicus brief from Academics for the Second Amendment is in.

Read it here.

Plus, co-author David Hardy is pretty tired right now. But here is what he has to say about this important brief.

More Heller Amicus Briefs

A raft of Heller amicus briefs urging the court to overturn the DC gun ban and affirm an individual Second Amendment right.

- Jews For the Preservation of Firearms Ownership

- Pink Pistols and Gays and Lesbians for Individual Liberty

- Second Amendment Foundation

- Georgia Carry Inc.

- American Hunters & Shooters Assoc. (largely thought to be anti-gun, alternative to NRA), along with 10 retired U.S. generals (two major generals, five lieutenant generals, three full generals).

h/t to Clayton Cramer

Some Great Heller/DC Reading For Your Weekend

Updated: Friday, Feb. 8, 2008, 2:18 pm -- A majority of Congress signing onto the argument that DC firearms owners have an individual right to keep a handgun. It comes in a brief filed with the Supreme Court.

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All worth sitting down on a snowy day, or sunny if you are among the lucky few in the nation, and reading.

- A second congressional amicus brief is incoming, this one supporting the individual right contention of Heller. There was a earlier brief filed from congressional legislators supporting DC's ban argument. I'm intrigued. Supposedly, more democrats from both the House and Senate are signing onto the individual rights argument.

- SCOTUSBLOG has links to all of the early amicus briefs filed in support of the respondent, Mr. Heller. More are coming.

- Several law-related blogs have write-ups on District of Columbia v. Heller. Check out the arguments, pro and con, from Balkinization, Sentencing Law & Policy, and Leibowitz's Canticle.

- Washington Post story on the pro-individual rights argument in Heller.

h/t to David Hardy

Two More Pro Safety Briefs Filed In Heller

Two more pro-gun briefs, actually I should say "Pro Heller, or even Pro DC safety" briefs. For reforming this non-sensical (and useless, when you look at crime stats) handgun ban in the District of Columbia is long overdue. Such reform will go far toward providing a safer environment in our nation's capital.

Anyway, the National Rifle Association and a collection of five private security trade organizations and the Buckeye Firearms Foundation filed amicus briefs this week with the High Court.

DC v. Heller Update

Two recent pieces have been written. One is an excerpt, published on the History News Network, of an amicus brief filed by a number of anti-gun scholars, including the occasionally factually challenged Saul Cornell of the Second Amendment Research Center, John Glenn Institute at The Ohio State University. To read the amicus brief in its entirety, click here.

The second is a view from a columnist in Maryland who suggests the Supreme Court should not just judge the meaning of the meaning of the 2A, but also determine whether Americans have a right to a zone of privacy in their home when it comes to firearms ownership.

Both make interesting reading.

History News Network-- "Can Washington DC legally stop residents from owning a handgun?"
Frederick News-Post -- "The Second Amendment, gun control and the right of privacy"