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NRA Daily Alert For 7-24-2018

By RVL / July 25, 2018
DAILY ALERT FOR Tuesday, July 24, 2018

 

 

 

NEWS LEGAL & LEGISLATION
Federal Appeals Court Confirms Second Amendment Protects Right to Carry in Public
The NRA applauds a ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that confirms the Second Amendment protects the right to carry a firearm outside the home for self-defense.

 

 
REUTERS
U.S. appeals court: Constitution protects right to carry gun in public
(Reuters) – A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment protects a right to openly carry a gun in public for self-defense, rejecting a claim by Hawaii officials that the right only applies to guns kept at home. The extent of the right to gun ownership protected by the Second Amendment is one of the most hotly contested debates in the United States, where life has been punctuated by a steady stream of mass shootings.

 

 
WASHINGTON TIMES
Toronto mayor calls for total disarmament after shooting
Canada is often portrayed — by filmmaker Michael Moore and others — as a nation with common-sense gun control and fewer murders.Apparently that’s not enough for Toronto’s mayor, who called Monday for the total disarmament of the city — saying nobody needs a gun — in the wake of a gunman’s rampage through its Danforth district.

 

 
NEWSDAY
With eye on Supreme Court, Cuomo pushes state legislators to act on gun bill
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo reiterated his call Saturday for the GOP-controlled State Senate to return to Albany to pass the “red-flag” bill, which is aimed at blocking dangerous people from having access to guns.

 

 
FOXNEWS.COM
Eric Holder will decide whether to run in 2020 ‘sometime early next year’
Former attorney general Eric Holder is mulling a 2020 presidential run, saying on Monday he’ll make the decision “sometime early next year.” “I’m thinking about it,” Holder, who ran the Justice Department from 2009 until 2015 under President Obama, told “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert. “What I’ve said is that I’d make a determination sometime early next year.” “My focus, really, now, is on 2018, the midterms and trying to make sure that Democrats take back the Senate, take back the House and do well, importantly, at the state level,” he continued.

 

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