Below is a link to testimony provide by attorney Stephen P. Halbrook, a leading Second Amendment attorney in the U.S. This information should be valuable to anyone concerned about the right to keep and bear arms and personal liberty.
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Serious concerns exist concerning the nomination of Eric Holder for Attorney General regarding rights under the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. His denial that law-abiding citizens have a right to keep and bear arms for lawful purposes is exemplified by his support for draconian proposal to criminalize, with severe felony penalties, exercise of that constitutional right.
Mr. Holder recently joined in an amici curiae brief in District of Columbia v. Heller arguing that the Second Amendment does not guarantee individual rights and supporting the D.C. handgun ban. It states: “Amici disagree with the current position of the United States Department of Justice that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms for purposes unrelated to a State’s operation of a well-regulated militia.”[1] The brief relies in part on arguments by an attorney for the Violence Policy Center, a firearm prohibitionist lobby.[2]……..read the rest of Halbrook’s testimony.
Tom Remington
