A nonprofit group that favors stronger gun control wants a local U.S. district judge to throw out a case to overturn gun laws in Charleston, South Charleston and Dunbar. Lawyers for the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence plan to file an amicus brief in the U.S. District Court's southern West Virginia district today asking that judges dismiss a case filed by the West Virginia Citizens Defense League against the cities of Charleston, South Charleston and Dunbar. Those cities have gun laws that ban carrying guns on city property, and Charleston additionally limits gun purchases to one per month and requires a three-day waiting period.
HELENA, Mont. - The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence is joining the federal government's fight to stop states, including West Virginia, that want to exempt themselves from national gun control laws, arguing the effort threatens public safety. The gun control advocates and the U.S. Department of Justice both filed new arguments Tuesday in the ongoing legal battle over federal gun control and states rights.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Judge Samuel A. Alito's judicial views pose serious dangers to the safety of our communities, our families, and our children, as evidenced by his troubling dissent in U.S. v. Rybar, 103 F.3d 273 (3rd Cir. 1996). For this reason, the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence announced its opposition to Judge Alito's nomination to the United States Supreme Court last month. (It is the first time in its history that the Brady Center has opposed a Supreme Court nomination.) In the Rybar case, Judge Alito concluded that the federal machine gun ban is an unconstitutional exercise of Congressional power under the Commerce Clause. Alito attempted to erect arbitrary hurdles to Congressional efforts to reduce the availability of machine guns to the criminal elem...
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Peter Hamm of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, +1-202-898-0792, phamm@bradymail.org
To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Peter Hamm of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, +1-202-898-0792, phamm@bradymail.org
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Peter Hamm of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, +1-202-898-0792, phamm@bradymail.org
WASHINGTON, May 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence today released a report documenting a concerted effort by the gun lobby, its allies in Congress, and the Bush Administration to suppress crime gun trace data exposing the complicity of gun dealers in supplying the illegal gun market in order to aid gunmakers in civil court cases and shield the industry from negative public attention. The Brady Center's report reveals for the first time that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), during the Bush Administration, deliberately withheld from the public information in a key internal document on the gun dealers who supply the most guns to crime -- a document that ATF shared in full with the gun industry.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence announced today that it is opposing the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court. This is the first time the Brady Center has opposed a Supreme Court nomination. Judge Alito's nomination poses serious dangers to the safety of our communities, our families, and our children, as evidenced by his troubling dissent in U.S. vs. Rybar, 103 F.3d 273 (3rd Cir. 1996). In that case, Judge Alito argued that the federal machine gun ban amounted to an unconstitutional exercise of Congressional power under the Commerce Clause. Alito attempted to erect arbitrary hurdles to Congressional efforts to reduce the availability of machine guns to the criminal element.
To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Peter Hamm of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, +1-202-898-0792, phamm@bradymail.org
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