{"id":738,"date":"2010-03-01T22:19:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T02:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=738"},"modified":"2010-03-01T22:19:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T02:19:27","slug":"mcdonald-goes-before-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/mcdonald-goes-before-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"McDONALD GOES BEFORE SUPREME COURT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow \u2013 Tuesday, March 2, 2010 for those reading this late \u2013 the Supreme Court of the United States will hear <em>McDonald versus Chicago. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>For a preview of the issues, taped by Gail Pepin at the SHOT Show, listen to salient points being discussed by key players from the plaintiffs\u2019 side. You\u2019ll hear from Alan Gura, the brilliant young attorney who victoriously presented the winning case to SCOTUS in <em>Heller v. Washington DC. <\/em>You\u2019ll also hear from Rich Pearson, president of the Illinois State Rifle and Pistol Association, and from Joe Tartaro and Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation. SAF is the organization that ramrodded this case to where it is, and those folks make me proud to have served on their board of trustees for decades. You can catch the briefing on Pro-Arms Podcast number 046, downloadable to your computer or from <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/proarms\/id281217915\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/proarmspodcast.com\/\">http:\/\/proarmspodcast.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to the mendacious whining of sources like the Violence Policy Center and the Huffington Post, there are credentialed liberals who are solidly in our corner on this issue. That\u2019s because it ain\u2019t about guns, its about individual rights, civil rights, and the Bill of Rights itself. Even <em>Newsweek, <\/em>far from a pro-gun publication, says so.\u00a0 See it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/234185\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected that SCOTUS will rule that the <em>Heller <\/em>decision applies in all states, and not just Washington, DC. The National Shooting Sports Foundation has a good roundup of the issues at their <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nssf.org\/2010\/03\/sequel-to-heller-mcdonald-v-chicago-goes-before-the-supreme-court.html\" target=\"_blank\">NSSF Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>L to R: JoeTartaro, Rich Pearson, Alan Gura, Larry Keane, Alan Gottlieb <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/proarmspodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/046pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Photo by Gail Pepin<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow \u2013 Tuesday, March 2, 2010 for those reading this late \u2013 the Supreme Court of the United States will hear McDonald versus Chicago. For a preview of the issues, taped by Gail Pepin at the SHOT Show, listen to salient points being discussed by key players from the plaintiffs\u2019 side. You\u2019ll hear from Alan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearm-owners-civil-rights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}