Despite repeated pleas from the victims, Obama refused to award the Purple Heart with its significant benefits to the soldiers wounded or killed by the self-professed “soldier of Allah,” Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 16, 2014 on Breitbart.com.
When purchasing a firearm, federal law makes it a crime to make any false statement about “any fact material to the lawfulness of the sale.” Bruce Abramski is a former police officer in Virginia who purchased a gun for his uncle in Pennsylvania. His uncle is law-abiding and could have bought the gun himself, but Abramski made the purchase to get a policeman’s price discount to save his uncle money.
The former officer was convicted for violating federal law in buying the gun. Today in
This column by Caleb Howe was published May 26, 2014 on TruthRevolt.org.
On MSNBC this afternoon, commentator and Republican politician Ken Blackwell was on as part of panel discussion about guns and gun control in the wake of this weekend’s killing spree in Santa Barbara. Host Craig Melvin runs down a laundry list of various ways of saying gun or shooting and so on before finally asking Blackwell how something like this could happen. Blackwell’s response was absolutely pitch perfect. First he had a pause to take it in, then he said:
“You know, I wonder if I missed something. My […]
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published on October 1, 2013 on The Daily Caller website.
By now, you’d think Michael Bloomberg would have learned his lesson.
The out-of-touch New York City mayor has lately made it his business to be in everyone else’s business—whether that means trying to decide for New York residents what they are allowed to eat or drink, or trying to tell people from other states what to think of their elected officials.
More often than not, however, Mayor Bloomberg’s overreaches have been repelled. The courts struck down Bloomberg’s ban on large sodas. […]
Maryland law reduces Second Amendment’s guarantee of right to bear arms largely to home and hearth, group contends in court brief.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Maryland is unconstitutionally restricting citizens’ right of self defense outside the home, argues an American Civil Rights Union amicus brief submitted Monday to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In Woollard and Second Amendment Foundation, Inc. v. Gallagher, et al, the brief, written by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara, asks the Court to hear the case, and states:
“There is nothing in the language of the Second Amendment, or of this Court’s governing, binding precedents in Heller and McDonald, that limits the […]
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published August 5, 2013 on Breitbart.com.
The National Rifle Association (NRA) sued the Obama administration’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) over a federal law denying law-abiding young adults their Second Amendment right to own a handgun. After fighting it out in the lower courts, the NRA has now petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to take the case.
The case is NRA v. BATFE, and the lawyers representing the NRA are the best in the nation on this issue.
Federal law allows all law-abiding adults (meaning ages 18 and […]
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 16, 2013 on Breitbart.com.
The Supreme Court has declined to take Kachalsky v. Cacace, what could have been the next big Second Amendment case for the nation. But Kachalsky was a flawed case, and another case with different lawyers might have better chances of building Supreme Court precedent in the right direction.
Kachalsky was a challenge to New York’s law disallowing carrying guns outside your home without a permit, and also challenged the Empire State’s power to deny those permits if the applicant lacks “proper cause” to have a gun for self-defense.
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 22, 2013 on Breitbart.com.
The NRA is taking New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to court as Cuomo prepares to run for president in 2016.
The National Rifle Association is supporting a lawsuit filed by its state affiliate, the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, whose president, Tom King, serves on the NRA board of directors.
In its complaint filed Mar. 21, the lawsuit challenges two provisions of Cuomo’s new gun-control law: one that bans a made-up type of firearm some politicians call “assault weapons” (there is no […]
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published March 19, 2013 on the American Thinker website.
Here’s what Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) learned from questioning Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) about the constitutionality of her “assault weapons” ban. She’s out of estrogen and she used to have a gun.
Feinstein came armed with a scowl and a ruler when she confronted Cruz at the Constitution Corral. The outcome was so not OK for her. You can watch their exchange over S.150 during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last Thursday.
Feinstein actually objected when Cruz referred to […]
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 16, 2013 on Breitbart.com.
Missouri Democrats are trying to join New York, California, and Illinois as states that oppose gun rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. National talk-radio host Lars Larson–who is not a lawyer–understands the relevant provisions of the Constitution better than many lawyers I know.
One television personality referred to the proposed Missouri ban as going after assault weapons and guns with assault-weapon features. That’s half-right: there is no such thing as an assault weapon; it’s not a class of firearms. It’s a made-up term by anti-gun politicians to scare ordinary […]
