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Rocky Mountain Gun Owners (RMGO) is a 501(c)(4) non-profit gun rights advocacy group in Colorado, United States.. The group has become known for aggressive lobbying activities that have made their issues prominent, particularly in primaries and candidate nominating assemblies and for its influence in firearms public policy such as concealed carry and constitutional carry legislation.
The court ruled that a county law prohibiting a gun store being within 500 feet of a "[r]esidentially zoned district; elementary, middle or high school; pre-school or day care center; other firearms sales business; or liquor stores or establishments in which liquor is served" violated the Second Amendment. Peruta v.
t. e. In the United States, the right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental right [1] [2] [3] protected by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights, and by the constitutions of most U.S. states. [4] The Second Amendment declares:
United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1876) - post Civil War era case relating to the Ku Klux Klan depriving freed slaves basic rights such as freedom of assembly and the right to bear arms. The court ruled the application of the First and Second Amendments "was not intended to limit the powers of the State governments in respect to their ...
On June 21, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled on a pivotal Second Amendment gun control case, United States v. Rahimi, ultimately deciding to uphold a federal law that blocks people ...
As the Supreme Court explained in an 1847 decision, the police power “is not susceptible of an exact limitation.”. As “new and vicious indulgences” emerged, they required “restraints ...
The National Association for Gun Rights ( NAGR) is a gun rights advocacy group in the United States. [5] [6] They maintain an affiliated PAC and a nonprofit legal foundation. Officially incorporated in Virginia on March 29, 2000, [1] NAGR was founded by Dudley Brown as a national companion organization to Rocky Mountain Gun Owners.
Various gun rights activists and groups sued to block the law, saying it violates their right to bear arms under the Second Amendment. In 1994 Congress enacted a nationwide ban on assault weapons ...