The Second Amendment Foundation applauds the Supreme Court for
its recent decision.
BELLEVUE, Wash., July 2, 2022
/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Second Amendment Foundation today hailed
the U.S. Supreme Court decision to vacate lower court rulings in
several gun rights cases and remand them back to lower courts for
review "in light of" last week's landmark 6-3 decision in
New York State Rifle & Pistol
Assn., Inc. v. Bruen.
Chief among these cases is Bianchi, Dominic, et.al. v. Frosh, a
case brought by SAF and the Citizens Committee for the Right to
Keep and Bear Arms challenging Maryland's 2013 ban on so-called "assault
weapons." Other cases include challenges to restrictive gun laws in
Hawaii, New Jersey and California. In addition, a SAF case called
McDougall v. Ventura County, which
challenges a closure of gun shops two years ago during the COVID-19
panic, has been vacated by a Ninth Circuit en banc panel and
remanded to the trial court for action consistent with the Supreme
Court's New York ruling.
"This is incredibly good news," said SAF founder and Executive
Vice President Alan Gottlieb. "The
importance of Justice Clarence
Thomas' majority opinion in the New York right-to-carry case may not be fully
understood until all of these other cases have gone through lower
court review. What we're seeing today could be the beginning of
court actions that eventually fully restore rights protected by the
Second Amendment."
Gottlieb, who also chairs the Citizens Committee, said the Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals' decision to remand the McDougall case
back for further proceedings consistent with last week's Bruen
ruling sends a strong signal that federal courts can no longer use
a made-up "two-step" process to determine Second Amendment cases.
As Justice Thomas wrote in his
opinion, "Despite the popularity of this two-step approach, it is
one step too many."
"Our attorneys are already reviewing earlier cases to determine
which ones can be re-filed for further action based on the high
court ruling in Bruen," he noted, "and we are confident other cases
now remanded back for further review will also fare better in the
lower courts."
"It is also important," Gottlieb said, "that the high court
granted all writs of certiorari in these Second Amendment cases as
they were being remanded back for further review. That tells me we
have a Supreme Court willing to rein in lower court activism and
limit how far they will allow local and state governments to reach
when it comes to placing burdens on the exercise of a fundamental,
constitutionally-enumerate right to keep and bear arms."
Second Amendment Foundation spokespersons available to be your
guest:
ABOUT CHRIS CHENG (In Pacific
Time)
Chris Cheng serves on the advisory
council to the Second Amendment Foundation's Board of Trustees. He
is the History Channel's Top Shot Season 4 Champion and author of
the book "Shoot to Win." Cheng is an Asian D&I advocate in the
gun community, a former Google employee who went from self-taught
amateur to pro shooter.
ABOUT CAM EDWARDS (In Eastern
Time)
Cam Edwards is the editor at Bearing
Arms-dot-com and hosts the popular podcast Cam & Company that
focuses on Second Amendment news and information. Cam is originally
from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and
has worked in radio, television, and online media for over two
decades. He currently lives on a small farm with his family near
Farmville, Virginia, and is a
member of the board of Citizens Committee to Keep and Bear
Arms.
ABOUT MARK WALTERS (in Eastern
Time):
Mark Walters is a member of the
board of directors for the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep
and Bear Arms. As a nationally syndicated host of two talk radio
programs, Armed American Radio and Armed American Radio's Daily
Defense, Mark is heard on hundreds of stations weekly across the
country. Mark is the co-founder of Armed American News and the
recipient of the 2015 "Gun Rights Defender of the Year award." In
addition, Mark Walters is co-author
of three books, including Lessons from Armed America, Lessons from
Unarmed America, and Grilling While Armed.
ABOUT LEE WILLIAMS (In Eastern
Time)
Lee Williams is also known as The
Gun Writer and has been writing about the Second Amendment,
firearms, the firearms industry, and the gun culture for more than
ten years. He is the Chief Editor of the Second Amendment
Foundation's Investigative Reporting Project and is a frequent
contributor to Ammoland News and Armed American Radio. In addition,
Lee serves as a board member of Florida
Carry, Inc. He was also an editor for a daily newspaper in
Florida. Before becoming a
newspaper editor, Lee was an investigative reporter in three states
and a U.S. Territory. Before becoming a journalist, he worked as a
police officer. Before becoming a cop, Lee served in the Army. Lee
has earned more than a dozen national journalism awards as a
reporter and three medals of valor as a police officer.
ABOUT DAVE WORKMAN (In Pacific
Time):
Dave Workman is an award-winning
career journalist and senior editor of TheGunMag.com. He writes for
Liberty Park Press, Conservative
Firing Line, and is communications director for the Citizens
Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. He has authored
Op-Ed pieces in several major newspapers, including the Chicago
Tribune, Seattle Times, and Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, and co-authored seven books with Second
Amendment Foundation Alan Gottlieb. Workman's beat is firearms,
from politics to the outdoors. He is widely considered an authority
on firearms, concealed carry, and gun politics.
The Second Amendment Foundation (http://www.saf.org) is the
nation's oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research,
publishing, and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional
right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded
in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 700,000 members and
supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the
public about the consequences of gun control.
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