SAF Hails California High Court Victory Over S.F. Handgun Ban

U.S. Newswire;  April 10, 2008 ;     420 words ......Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation, +1- 425-454-7012 BELLEVUE...sought to uphold its handgun ban, the Second Amendment Foundation said. SAF was joined in a lawsuit against the handgun ban by the National Rifle...nothing. The Second Amendment ...

Second Amendment Foundation Applauds Court for Moving Ahead on DC Handgun...

U.S. Newswire;  November 4, 2005 ;     475 words ......Newswire/ -- The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) today said the U...to the long- standing handgun ban in Washington, D.C. The...to check their Second Amendment rights, and right of self-defen...that the ill- advised handgun ban has not worked," he...the ability to keep a ...

SAF Blasts Proposed San Francisco Handgun Ban: 'We Beat That In 1982'

U.S. Newswire;  December 16, 2004 ;     451 words ......bigotry," the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) today blasted plans to put a handgun ban on the November 2005...Feinstein pushed through a handgun ban in San Francisco...again." --- The Second Amendment Foundation is the nation's oldest...

Group launches campaign for handgun ban referendum

The Boston Globe;  April 21, 1992 ;     700+ words ......launch a campaign today for a sweeping handgun ban in Boston. Members of CEASE-FIRE will...drive for a nonbinding referendum on a handgun ban in November. The ballot question would...Council candidate who is spearheading the handgun ban drive. It is the second initiative in...

Charter doesn't authorize handgun ban: village attorney

Glencoe News (IL);  August 24, 2000 ;     411 words ......does not have the authority to enact a handgun ban. In a letter to the village, Filippini...Village Board was scheduled to discuss a handgun ban ordinance during a workshop session...also a charter community, adopted a handgun ban in 1989 following the Laurie Dann incident...

Wilmette shoots down '89 handgun ban

Wilmette Life (IL);  July 24, 2008 ;     345 words ......night to strike the village's 1989 handgun ban from the books in the wake of last...election two people talked to me about our handgun ban, one person being for it and one person...diverse dining options than about the handgun ban."

Trustees still back local handgun ban

Wilmette Life (IL);  January 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......prosecute of a homeowner under the village's handgun ban ordinance is a minor charge - more of...believe the reasons behind the 15-year-old handgun ban remain valid and made no moves to overturn...Cindy Falzer said she believes the handgun ban, like the more recently passed indoor...

Handgun ban hearing boils with rancor in Winnetka

Chicago Sun-Times;  December 16, 1988 ;     503 words ......before the Winnetka Village Board on a handgun ban recommended earlier by the village's...harm in the ban than in guns. "This handgun ban will hurt people," said Susan Craig...Wilmette. "They are trying to portray (a handgun ban) as the beginning of a second Holocaust...

Wilmette police chief gets an earful on handgun ban Weapons 'create a...

Chicago Sun-Times;  January 14, 2004 ;     325 words ......Wilmette Village Board to defend the town's handgun ban, which has come to the forefront since...residents are supportive of the 1989 handgun ban, Carpenter said, although he acknowledged...podium Tuesday to blast the village's handgun ban and to defend gun ownership, which some...

New Survey Reveals More Americans Favor Handgun Ban Than Own Handguns

U.S. Newswire;  March 15, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Among the study's findings are: -- Handgun Ban. While only 25 percent of Americans...Middle Atlantic residents favor a handgun ban. Nearly 47 percent of New England residents favor a handgun ban, as do 40 percent of East North Central...

Daley waffles on defending handgun ban

SouthtownStar (Chicago, IL);  August 2, 2008 ;     442 words ......costly fight to defend Chicago's 1982 handgun ban - if he can fashion a replacement ordinance...Court overturned a Washington, D.C., handgun ban on grounds that the Second Amendment...Wilmette pre-emptively repealed its handgun ban last week, and Morton Grove did the...

Texan takes aim at D.C. handgun ban

Washington Afro-American;  July 29, 2005 ;     700+ words ......R-Texas) proposed lifting the District's handgun ban under the District of Columbia Personal...time ago, which is gotten rid of that handgun ban." But Tyra Montgomery, a leader in the...Charles Ramsey, who also supports the handgun ban. D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D...

Milwaukee OKs Vote on Handgun Ban

Chicago Sun-Times;  March 10, 1994 ;     274 words ......make Milwaukee the largest city in the nation with a total handgun ban received city council approval for a place on the November...in fines up to $100. No large U.S. city has passed a total handgun ban, said Cheryl Brolin of Handgun Control Inc., a national gun...

Federal District Court Strongly Rejects National Rifle Association Second...

PR Newswire;  January 15, 2004 ;     475 words ......waged by the NRA to overturn the DC handgun ban. The lead plaintiff in the NRA's failed...S. 1414, to repeal the District's handgun ban. (A separate Second Amendment challenge to the DC handgun ban, Parker v. District Columbia, is still...

What a handgun ban didn't do for D.C.: Is there a "smoking gun" that...

Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA);  April 9, 2007 ;     700+ words ......There was no cause and effect. The handgun ban remains law pending appeal, which could...that proves the efficacy of the D.C. handgun ban? Or is such a law so bound up in the...would have come into D.C. without the handgun ban, or how many more juvenile shootings...