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| NEWS LEGAL & LEGISLATION Trump Administration, Other Pro-Gun Heavyweights Lend Support on Pending Supreme Court Case | |
| As NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris W. Cox reported in March, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken up a challenge by an NRA state affiliate to a New York City gun control scheme that effectively prohibits lawfully licensed handgun owners from leaving the city with their own firearms. The plaintiffs in the case have raised a number of objections to the regime, the foremost of which is that it violates the Second Amendment. The case is New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. New York City. | |
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| NEWS Out of Style: Levi’s Fawns Over Shannon Watts in Pantmaker’s Latest Gun Control Effort | |
| At the National Retail Federation’s 2018 convention in New York City, Levi Strauss & Co. Brand President James Curleigh told those assembled that the multinational pants manufacturer intends to be the “most relevant lifestyle brand.” Evidently, part of creating that “lifestyle” includes foisting a doctrinaire set of political beliefs onto its employees and customers. | |
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| NEWS Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Only What We Want Ye to Hear | |
| Can we finally put the claim that “gun violence” research is underfunded to rest? The Bloomberg Professor of American Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, Daniel Webster, and his colleagues at the Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research launched their much anticipated massive, open online course “Reducing Gun Violence in America: Evidence for Change” this week. The course is available on Coursera, an online learning platform. | |
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| NEWS LEGAL & LEGISLATION Retired Justice Stevens Continues Crusade Against Guns | |
| Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens does not believe a law-abiding citizen has a right to possess firearms under the Second Amendment, and he wants to make sure everyone knows it. He made his position clear when he authored a dissenting opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller, where the Supreme Court, in fact, held that the Second Amendment does protect an individual right. | |
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| NEWS Gov. Abbott Signs NRA-Backed Tenants' Rights Bill | |
| The National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) applauded Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday for signing NRA-backed legislation that protects tenants’ rights by prohibiting “no firearms” clauses in residential leases. | |
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| NEWS LEGAL & LEGISLATION NRA Supports Guns Save Life's Challenge to Illinois’s FOID Act | |
| NRA is supporting a legal challenge to Illinois's FOID Act brought by Guns Save Life, an organization dedicated to defending the Second Amendment rights of Illinois residents. | |
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| NEWS LEGAL & LEGISLATION NRA Applauds Attorneys General and Governors Amicus Brief in Supreme Court Challenge | |
| NRA Applauds Attorney General and Governors Amicus Brief in Supreme Court Challenge. | |
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