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Don't Mess with Miss America

By ACRU Staff|2023-05-20T09:38:00-04:00April 23rd, 2007|

Over the weekend, Fox News reported this gem of a story:

82-YEAR-OLD EX-BEAUTY QUEEN STOPS INTRUDER BY SHOOTING OUT TIRES

Saturday, April 21, 2007

WAYNESBURG, Ky. — Miss America 1944 has a talent that likely has never appeared on a beauty pageant stage: She fired a handgun to shoot out a vehicle’s tires and stop an intruder.

Venus Ramey, 82, confronted a man on her farm in south-central Kentucky last week after she saw her dog run into a storage building where thieves had previously made off with old farm equipment.

Ramey said the man told her he would leave. […]

A Tale of Two Cities

By ACRU Staff|2023-05-20T09:38:01-04:00April 20th, 2007|

City No. 1: Blacksburg, Virginia, April 17, 2007.

Cho Seung-Hui, a 23 year-old student at Virginia Tech, well prepared and having armed himself to the teeth, kills two classmates early in the morning, returns to his room to prepare a package of videotapes he will send to NBC, and, after a hiatus of about two hours, walks to a classroom building across campus, chains the doors shut, and shoots to death 30 students and faculty before taking his own life.

At the time of this episode, Virginia Tech rules forbade students from possessing firearms, the University having declared itself to be a “gun […]

National Review: ACRU's Ferrara Weighs in on DC Gun Ban Case

By ACRU Staff|2023-05-20T09:38:11-04:00April 6th, 2007|

Over at National Review Online, Jennifer Rubin has a great article in her Opening Shots column on the Parker v. District of Columbia case and the consequent prospects for the Second Amendment. Peter Ferrara, general counsel of the ACRU, is quoted extensively. Click here to read.

Be sure also to read Ferrara’s excellent article, “Conservative Win: Second Amendment victory in D.C.,” published at National Review Online right after our victory in the Parker case.

Peter Ferrara: Conservative Win: Second Amendment victory in D.C

By ACRU Staff|2023-05-20T09:38:15-04:00March 17th, 2007|

The conservative movement won an historic victory last Friday. In the case of Parker v. District of Columbia, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does, indeed, protect a right for individual citizens to keep and bear arms for self-defense and other legal uses.

ACRU Applauds Victory in D.C. Gun Case

By ACRU Staff|2023-05-20T09:38:15-04:00March 10th, 2007|

The American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) applauds the decision just handed down by the U.S. Circuit Court for the D.C. Circuit concerning the Second Amendment to the Constitution. This 2-1 decision struck down as unconstitutional the D.C. City Council's law which, with few exceptions, made private ownership of guns illegal in the District.

ACRU Supports case in Defense of Right to Bear Arms

By ACRU Staff|2023-05-20T09:38:29-04:00June 22nd, 2006|

The American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) filed a brief amicus curiae on Friday, June 16 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in support of the plaintiffs in the case of Shelly Parker et al. v. District of Columbia.

Department of Justice Memorandum Opinion For The Attorney General (August 24, 2004): Whether the Second Amendment secures a right of individuals generally, not a right of States or a right restricted to persons serving in militias.

By ACRU Staff|2023-05-20T09:38:29-04:00August 4th, 2004|

“The Second Amendment of the Constitution provides: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” You have asked for the opinion of this Office on one aspect of the right secured by this Amendment. Specifically, you have asked us to address the question whether the right secured by the Second Amendment belongs only to the States, only to persons serving in state-organized militia units like the National Guard, or to individuals generally. This memorandum memorializes and expands upon advice that this Office provided to you on this question […]