Senates Leading Gun Rights Advocates Urged Court to Strengthen Gun Rights
Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON D.C. Calling it a victory for all Americans U.S. Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) praised todays landmark U.S. Supreme Court McDonald v. City of Chicago decision.
The ruling finds it unconstitutional for state and local governments to restrict individual gun rights of law-abiding Americans.
Hutchison and Tester led a bipartisan effort in Congress urging the U.S. Supreme Court to side in favor of individual gun rights and to strike down local restrictions.
Hutchison and Tester are Congress leading gun rights advocates. They said todays decision gives all law-abiding American gun owners reason to celebrate.
Todays Supreme Court ruling is a major victory for the rights of all Americans to protect themselves and their families" said Hutchison. The Supreme Court once again sent a clear message to local state and federal governments: the individual right to keep and bear arms applies to all law abiding Americans regardless where they live."
Today we ensured that law-abiding folks have the same Second Amendment rights no matter where in America they live" said Tester co-chairman of the Congressional Sportsmens Caucus. This decision is a major victory for Americas
gun owners and Ill keep fighting hard to protect our gun rights."
Hutchison and Tester wrote and delivered a 59-page friend-of-the-court brief to the Court last October for McDonald v. City of Chicago. The document which argued for inherent individual gun rights under the Second Amendment included signatures from 309 senators and representatives from both partiesmore members of Congress than any friend-of-the-court brief in U.S. history.
Hutchison and Tester also led a successful effort in Congress to support gun rights in the landmark Supreme Court case Heller v. District of Columbia. That case overturned Washington D.C.s longstanding ban on firearms 5-to-4.
