Editor’s Note: The following is a letter sent to U.S. Senators from Montana, Jon Tester and Max Baucus from Gary Marbut, President of Montana Shooting Sports Association.

June 30, 2010

Senator Jon Tester
Senator Max Baucus

Oppose Kagan

Dear Jon,
Dear Max,

During the confirmation process for Justice Sonya Sotomayor, you assured Montanans that nominee Sotomayor would respect the Constitution (including the Second Amendment), notwithstanding some troubling indicators in her professional history in that regard.

Your assurances turned out to be worthless and flat wrong in the recent McDonald v. Chicago decision by the Supreme Court, in which Justice Sotomayor voted for the idea that the Second Amendment has no restraining effect on states and local governments, unlike most of the other rights the people have reserved to themselves in the Bill of Rights.

Now the confirmation of Elena Kagan is before the U.S. Senate. Just as with Sotomayor, Kagan has troubling history in her background to suggest that she, too, is hostile to the right to keep and bear arms. We are unwilling to trust any freshly-minted assurances that Kagan has suddenly grown to respect the Second Amendment. We consider Kagan to be opposed to and an enemy of the right to bear arms, period. She is a bad choice for the Supreme Court, notwithstanding any other attributes or qualifications.

For that reason, The Montana Shooting Sports Association firmly asks that you vote against the confirmation of Elena Kagan for Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Sincerely yours,

Gary Marbut, president
Montana Shooting Sports Association
http://www.mtssa.org
author, Gun Laws of Montana
http://www.mtpublish.com

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