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Article: 'Senator Obama, where do you stand?'.(The Editor's File)(Editorial)
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- American Gunsmith
- Article date:
- October 1, 2008
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Following the recent landmark Second Amendment ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the firearms industry, sent Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Hussein Obama (Dem., IL) a letter, dated July 4, asking whether he believes the law in the City of Chicago--his hometown--that bans law-abiding citizens from having firearms in their homes, violates the Second Amendment.
The letter, signed by NSSF Senior Vice President and General Counsel Lawrence G. Keane, referenced the case of the District of Columbia et al. v. Heller, which affirmed that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ...