Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org
March 09, 2010

Dear GOA Members, Supporters and Friends:

Gun Owners Of America is pleased to announce our “Friends of the Second Amendment” dinner to be held at Sindbad’s at The River, located at 100 St. Clair Street, Detroit, Michigan on Saturday, March 27, from 5 P.M. until 8 P.M.

To get directions to Sindbads, please go to: http://www.sindbads.com/flash/index.html

This year’s dinner will be highlighted with a special address from keynote speaker Larry Pratt, Executive Director of Gun Owners of America. Many noted local, state and federal political figures will also be on hand to answer your questions.

Tickets to this event are $50 per person, $75 per couple, and $40 per person for a table of eight ($320). This includes a one-year membership (or extension) to GOA, plus door prizes, a silent auction of your favorite firearms accessories and a firearms raffle.

Dinner proceeds will go to Gun Owners of America.

Dinner Menu Includes:

Michigan Venison Kabobs, Sesame Chicken, Fresh Fried Clam Strips,
Italian Sausage with Peppers and Onions and Fruit, Vegetable & Cheese trays.

To confirm your attendance by credit card go to: http://gunowners.org/midinner.htm

To confirm your attendance by check (before March 23rd): Mail to 8001 Forbes Place, Springfield, VA 22151. Please make checks payable to GOA with “GOA Dinner” noted on the memo line.

BELLEVUE, WA – A new Rasmussen poll has revealed that an overwhelming majority of Americans reject the notion that cities have a right to ban handguns, siding with the Second Amendment Foundation’s position in its lawsuit to overturn the Chicago ban.

Oral arguments in the SAF case were heard by the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday. Court observers predict the high court will overturn the Chicago ban, thus incorporating the Second Amendment to state and local governments through provisions in the 14th Amendment. Results from Rasmussen’s national telephone survey found that 69 percent of the respondents say cities have no right to ban legal handgun ownership, while 25 percent believe cities can ban guns.

“The Rasmussen survey clearly shows that Americans have grown weary of anti-gun municipal demagoguery,” said SAF Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “A victory in our case before the Supreme Court should send a clear signal to gun prohibitionists like Chicago Mayor Richard Daley that arbitrarily disarming law-abiding citizens under the guise of fighting crime is an idea that has no place in this country.”

SAF is joined in its case by the Illinois State Rifle Association and four Chicago residents, including Otis McDonald, for whom the Supreme Court case is named.

The Rasmussen poll also found very little difference between current public sentiment and earlier surveys that noted 70 percent of American adults believe the U.S. Constitution guarantees the individual right to own a firearm.

“For years,” Gottlieb said, “the anti-gun lobby has been claiming majority support for its Draconian agenda, but polling data like this new information from Rasmussen shows that the public is not about to surrender a significant civil right. We believe the Supreme Court is on the verge of expanding the scope of that right by applying the Second Amendment to the states.”

The Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org) is the nations 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 650,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control. SAF has previously funded successful firearms-related suits against the cities of Los Angeles; New Haven, CT; and San Francisco on behalf of American gun owners, a lawsuit against the cities suing gun makers and an amicus brief and fund for the Emerson case holding the Second Amendment as an individual right.

NRA-ILA GRASSROOTS ALERT
Vol. 17, No. 9 03/5/10

U.S. Supreme Court Hears Chicago Gun Ban Case

On Tuesday, March 2, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of McDonald v. City of Chicago. The case may well decide the scope and nature of gun laws in the United States for decades to come. The final decision will be handed down in a few months, most likely in June.

As we’ve reported in past alerts and in NRA magazines, McDonald is one of two challenges to the Chicago handgun ban that were filed immediately after gun owners’ landmark 2008 victory in District of Columbia v. Heller. After the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled-wrongly-that 19th century cases denied any right to Second Amendment protection against state and local laws, both McDonald and the companion case, NRA v. City of Chicago, were appealed.

The Court agreed to hear the McDonald case, but since that decision would affect the NRA case equally, the NRA was also a party to the McDonald case, and the Court granted us a share of the oral argument time.