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Chris Murphy may think this is cute, but the psycho-gun-grabbers will take him at his word.

>> right now the supreme court has made it clear under the heller decision, which still controls, they say theres a right to private gun ownership, and theres an ability for congress to legislate who owns weapons and what kind of weapons are owned, and i think we need to operate under that construct, and i see progress. we broke a 30-year logjam by breaking the initiative. weve seen republican states like tennessee looking at red flag laws and texas considering raising the age to buy assault wea...

Theyll have to pry my gun out of my cold, dead hands," which is something i heard on the campaign trail in 94. actually, if you read scalias own words, own words in the heller decision, which is the framework for what the second amendment is, it says military style weapons are not protected by the second amendment right now. its handguns and shotguns in a persons home. beyond that, states can regulate however they want to regulate it again, the lies that are spewed out, and these cowards, politi...

Area is going to likely be the biggest talking point about how can one deter if they do not know, but ultimately, alex, this tragedy that has happened the idea of listening to yet another police chief. talk about the reaction time the response time and the lives of nine year olds and though, and three adults who were there as well, i mean, im a mom of an eight year old and a 10 year old have to try to explain to my children gun laws in america why they have safety drills at their school that pol...

So you mean to clarify, mr. chairman, youre saying it is the point of the bill to ban weapons that are in common use in the united states to address the problem with the mohyeldin t ? joining me now is the man who got nadler squeal, congressmanwh van bishop of the house judiciary committee, congressmann, this is about gunj confiscation nationwide. .nadella admitted it. >> youve got to admit its good for you. >> well, its true, laura . you know you know very well that the heller decision held in ...

Amendment justice antonin scalia and his colleagues on the supreme court discovered in the heller decision an individual right to bear and carry arms, treating the first clause of the second amendment as if it were totally inconsequential. the founders knew exactly what well regulated militias meant. as the scholar michael waldman told me. >> you had an individual right to gun ownership to fulfill your duty to serve in the militia. every adult white man was required by law to serve in the militi...

In the 1970s new leadership took over the nra and made it the mission to protect every individuals right supposedly in the second amendment to keep and bear arms. this caused the former supreme court justice, warren berger, conservative jurist appointed by richard nixon, to say the following on pbs in 1991. >> this has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud on the american public by special interest groups i have ever seen in my lifetime. >> 217 years after the ratification of t...

Says, to adapt to the heller decision into this decision, and to permit some kinds of regulations. remember the second amendment talks about a well regulated militia, and militias at the time of the framing or well regulated by the states. so the states still reserve to themselves residual power to do reasonable regulations. what the court said today is new yorks regulation was not reasonable because it gives too much discretion to administrators to determine what constitutes a good cause. if yo...

That conservatives want no rules, regulations, its going to be a free-for-all as if supreme court would abide by that. no. the supreme court in the heller decision stated very clearly that reasonable restrictions are permissible, and indeed, the court then identified several restrictions that were perfectly okay. so we will have to wait and see whether things like background checks and red flag laws with due process are permissible but i suspect that those things would be. >> sean: professor, do...

At about the same time a gun-rights advocate was predicting the Far Left will ignore the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upholds lawful possession of a firearm outside the home, New York’s liberal politicians were vowing to fight a decision that guarantees their own citizens have the right to self-defense beyond the living room and bedroom.