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Support Your Right To Keep and Bear Arms in Kansas by Voting
“Yes” on Proposition 1 on November 2nd.
Visit the “Yes on 1” Website at www.nraila.org/YesOn1 to sign up, volunteer, and become a vocal advocate in protecting our Right to Keep and Bear Arms!
Also become a “Fan” or “Like” “Yes on 1 Committee” on Facebook and encourage all your friends to do the same!
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The President's Corner - July 2010
Greetings KSRA Members!
Hope everyone is having a great summer! If you missed the KSRA Annual Meeting and Shooting Festival you missed a great event. A very good time was had by all! We started off the public events with the Annual Membership Business Meeting and elected the Board Officers and Directors for 2010 – 2011. I’m honored to be serving another year as your President. And I’ve been very blessed with more and more members stepping up to volunteer their time and talent.
After the business meeting we presented awards in several categories. Again, I was honored with the Volunteer of the Year Award. I was deeply honored and those that were present for the presentations will probably tell you that I just about couldn’t talk I was so emotional. Thank you for such a wonderful tribute in recognition of my hard and heartfelt work! I was so proud of our members as I watched our Vice President, Terry McClure, present awards to our youth, Lydia Paterson and Caitlin Morrissey and to two fine adults, Steve McGee and Shirley McGee for their great accomplishments in their respective shooting disciplines. Congratulations to all of them for a job well done!
Then we got to listen to great presentations by Senator Tim Huelskamp, Congressional Candidate Jim Anderson, Senator Derek Schmidt and Congressional Candidate Dan Gilyeat. All great patriots to be sure! We appreciate their taking the time to be with us and share their thoughts on a subject that we all find interesting and critically important – protecting the Second Amendment and furthering gun rights in Kansas.
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ALL MEDIA INQUIRIES AND INTERVIEW
REQUESTS SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO:
Patricia Stoneking, President
Phone: 913-667-3044
Email: PStoneking@ksraweb.org
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Kansas: State Right to Keep and Bear Arms Amendment Passes House, Will be Placed on 2010 Ballot!
Friday, March 27, 2009
On Thursday, March 26, Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 1611 passed out of the Kansas State House by a vote of 116 to 9. SCR 1611, sponsored by State Senator Mike Petersen (R-28), is a constitutional amendment that would change the wording of Section 4 of the Kansas Constitution to specifically preserve and reflect an individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms, not a collective right. SCR 1611 will now be put on the 2010 General Election Ballot.
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The State of Heller
Does the Second Amendment apply to state and local governments? The Supreme Court has not definitively ruled, but in Nordyke v. King, decided just before this issue of America’s 1st Freedom went to press, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Second Amendment does bind state and local governments. The Ninth Circuit covers the nine westernmost states, including California.
Most laymen, and quite a few lawyers, too, are surprised to find out that the Bill of Rights does not automatically apply to state and local governments. There’s a long and complicated history behind this, but here’s the bottom line:
All of the provisions of the Bill of Rights are direct restrictions on the federal government. Likewise, directly limited is an entity whose powers exist only because they were granted from the federal government. For example, under the Constitution, the federal government is in charge of the District of Columbia. The D.C. Council’s powers exist solely because Congress delegated to the Council some of Congress’ authority over the District.
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BREAKING NEWS!!!!!
Supreme Court to Hear McDonald v. Chicago -- Monumental Second Amendment Case
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Fairfax, Va. -- The National Rifle Association applauds the Supreme Court's decision, announced today, to hear the landmark Second Amendment case of McDonald v. Chicago. The case will address the application of the Second Amendment to the states through either the Due Process clause or the Privileges or Immunities clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The case has major implications for the legality of restrictive gun laws not only in Chicago, but also in other cities across the United States. The decision to hear the case, which will be argued later this year or early next year, gives Second Amendment advocates across America hope that this fundamental freedom will not be infringed by unreasonable state and local laws.
"The Second Amendment applies to every citizen, not just to those living in federal enclaves like Washington D.C. In the historic Heller decision, the Supreme Court reaffirmed what most Americans have known all along -- that the Second Amendment protects an individual right and that it applies to all Americans. The government should respect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens throughout our country, regardless of where they live, and NRA is determined to make sure that happens," said Wayne LaPierre, NRA executive vice president.
In the June ruling that the Supreme Court will now review, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that the Second Amendment does not apply to state and local governments. That opinion left in place the current ban on the possession of handguns in Chicago.
However, the Seventh Circuit incorrectly claimed it was bound by precedent from 19th century Supreme Court decisions in failing to incorporate the Second Amendment. Many legal scholars believe that the Seventh Circuit should have followed the lead of the earlier Ninth Circuit panel decision in Nordyke v. Alameda County, which found that those cases don't prevent the Second Amendment from applying to the states through the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. To the contrary, a proper incorporation analysis supports application of the Second Amendment to the States.
"It is an injustice that the residents of Chicago continue to have their Second Amendment rights denied," said Chris W. Cox, NRA’s chief lobbyist. "It’s time that the fundamental right of self-defense is respected by every jurisdiction throughout the country. It is our hope that the Supreme Court will find, once and for all, that all law-abiding Americans have the God-given, constitutionally-protected right of self-defense, no matter what city, county or state they call home."
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