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From: Second Amendment Foundation Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 Subject: Court Rules in Favor of Second Amendment Foundation
Last Wednesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed a lower court ruling and ordered that court to issue a preliminary injunction against the City of Chicago on behalf of the Second Amendment Foundation that prevents the city from banning gun ranges inside city limits. The Appeals Court ruling was severely critical of the lower court's ruling.
Thanks to you and our other Second Amendment supporters, we at SAF have another legal "victory" over those who would try to take our gun right freedoms away!
This is a significant victory that could have strong implications well beyond the Chicago city limits. The court was making it clear that cities cannot adopt firearms ordinances that are so deliberately restrictive that they make it impossible for citizens to exercise their rights under the Second Amendment!
This overrules the decision last year to ban gun ranges inside the Chicago city limits.
This SAF injunction versus Chicago gun range ban is but only one of scores of lawsuits that the Second Amendment Foundation is currently a part of. And this concerns you, personally. My thanks goes out to you, and other SAF supporters, who have backed us with your thoughts and your finances, as we have stood up in the courts for your right to own a gun. A city cannot go against the Supreme Court!
Remember, our country's Founding Fathers helped to guarantee that right!
As I write this, I am, this week, at the Third Preparatory Committee Meeting for the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in New York. I am on the FRONTLINES of making sure that the United Nations Trade Treaty does not destroy our constitutional rights as gun owners!
The SAF position is permanent: we will not support any Arms Trade Treaty if it adversely affects the constitutional rights of American gun owners! Period. No "ifs" and no "buts." The meetings that I am in helps to lay the ground work for the final negotiation sessions of the ATT in 2012.
YOUR gun rights in the United States of American MUST NOT BE CONTROLLED by the United Nations! As you are probably already aware, the Second Amendment Foundation has been extremely active for many years at the United Nations to counter-act the various anti-gun rights initiatives that would restrict our sovereignty. Our Founding Fathers would roll over in their graves if they knew what other nations were trying to do to our Constitutionally-guaranteed rights!
Capitalizing on this court victory last Wednesday, SAF moved for a preliminary injunction against the State of Illinois to prevent further enforcement of the Illinois' "Carry Ban" of firearms in public by law-abiding citizens. Illinois is the only state in the United States with such restrictions. This goes totally AGAINST the recent U.S. Supreme Court Second Amendment rulings, including last year's landmark ruling in McDonald v. City of Chicago, yet another SAF legal case.
"Personal protection" is what American patriots wanted in 1776; this is also what they want in 2011! And no court is going to tell us differently!
Unfortunately, we have to win back our gun freedoms --- ONE LAWSUIT AT A TIME!
Last Friday, we also filed a motion for summary judgment in its lawsuit challenging a statute in Massachusetts that denies legal resident aliens the licenses required to possess a handgun in the home for self-defense, or purchase any kind of firearm. American citizens have distinctive RIGHTS guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution! One of those rights is self-defense, especially in one's own home.
My Friend, there are over 80,000,000 owners of weapons in the United States. Each one should be indebted to the Second Amendment Foundation for standing up in numerous courts of law to defend the Second Amendment and the right to keep and bear arms.
We cling to our rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution!
The Obama Administration does not want our group to WIN in these courts! Quite frankly, pro-gun groups are against the ANTI-GUN STRATEGY that this current administration has!
The Second Amendment dictates our battles. Now, it has turned into an all-out "war" because the Obama administration is so ANTI-GUN! We are constantly protecting the rights of gun-owners across the United States! And we take your trust in us very, very seriously. THANK YOU!
We must fight even harder, because if the Obama administration had their way, our gun rights would have already been DISCARDED! It's not just our gun rights --- it's our Constitutional rights! G-O-N-E!!
The Second Amendment GUARANTEES the freedom to own a gun to protect you and your family. AND NO ONE WILL EVER TAKE THAT AWAY! We are in this battle for YOU.
Sincerely, Alan M. Gottlieb, Chairman, Second Amendment Foundation
P. S. The Second Amendment Foundation (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 650,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control. Please help us to communicate information so our pro-gun forces will be victorious on our various legal fronts. Our United States Constitution demands that freedom! Please CLICK HERE to give a generous DONATION to the Second Amendment Foundation to assist us in communicating about the benefits to gun-owners in sticking to the Second Amendment! We continue to be on the legal frontlines representing gun-owner rights as we exercise our freedoms which the Second Amendment guarantees! Your Gift will HELP us in MANY lawsuits that we are processing ---RIGHT NOW--- in the various courts of our land! If you prefer to donate by check, please mail to: Second Amendment Foundation, Department Code 6587, 12500 NE 10th Place, Bellevue, WA 98005
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