Gun Rights Dean Anticipates National Support for Capitol Hill Effort to Torpedo Washington,...

Gun Rights Dean Anticipates National Support for Capitol Hill Effort to
Torpedo Washington, D.C. Assault on United States Supreme Court Heller
Decision

WASHINGTON, July 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "America's 80 million
law-abiding gun owners will support a developing congressional effort to
thwart politicians in the Nation's Capital seeking to undermine the Supreme
Court decision in the historic District of Columbia v. Heller case," right to
self-defense advocate John M. Snyder said here today.
"After the Court threw out the D.C. handgun ban as an unconstitutional
violation of the Second Amendment individual right to keep and bear arms, D.C.
officials thumbed their noses at the Court," continued Snyder, Manager of
Telum Associates, LL.C., and Public Affairs Director of the Citizens Committee
for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. "They acted recently to continue the ban
on semiautomatic handguns. They told Dick Anthony Heller, who won the case, he
still cannot register his .45 caliber Colt 1911 handgun."
Snyder, named "dean of gun lobbyists" by The Washington Post and The New
York Times, noted that, "H.R. 1399, the proposed Second Amendment Enforcement
Act introduced by Reps. Mike Ross (AR) and Mark Souder (IN), to repeal D.C.
provisions at issue in the case, already has 247 cosponsors -- well over half
the membership of the House of Representatives. H. Res. 1331, by Congressman
Souder, would force early consideration of a modified version of the bill if
activated by the signatures of 218 Representatives on a discharge petition the
Hoosier lawmaker plans to file.
"Since the D.C. government thinks it's superior to the Supreme Court,
Congress ought to tell gun-grabbing D.C. politicians to take a hike. Souder's
move would do the trick. Concerned citizens around the country can support
Souder by urging their own U.S. Representatives to endorse H. Res. 1331."
The Senate companion measure, S. 1001, by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of
Texas, already has 47 cosponsors, Snyder reported.
"D.C. politicians have treated the Supreme Court with contempt," said
Snyder. "They have refused to recognize appropriately the right to
self-protection. They have refused to honor freedom of choice of appropriate
arms for self-defense by Dick Anthony Heller and others. Congress must not
allow the District to get away with it. It should move the proposed Second
Amendment Enforcement Act and it should move it soon."
Contact: John Snyder 703-212-9863
SOURCE Telum Associates, LL.C.

John Snyder of Telum Associates, LL.C., +1-703-212-9863