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News Release

NRA Gives Gun Control Group an “F” In History and Civics

NRA urges journalists to do a little homework before attending
HCI’s “class.”

(WASHINGTON, DC) — James Jay Baker, chief lobbyist for the
National
Rifle Association, commented on a National Press Club event
scheduled
for Wednesday sponsored by Handgun Control Inc’s Center to
Prevent
Handgun Violence.

“If past is precedent, HCI will be doing its best to earn itself an
?F’ in the history and civics of the U.S. Constitution,” said Baker.
“As part of the group’s on-going assault on the rights of law-abiding
citizens, they ignore a mountain of scholarly research to argue that
the Second Amendment protects something other than an individual
right. Using a panel of four professors and two representatives of
anti-gun organizations to suggest that ?scholars’ support the
collective right interpretation is farcical and flies in the face of
the nation’s most prestigious constitutional experts such as Lawrence
Tribe, Akhil Reed Amar, William Van Alstyne, and Sanford Levinson.”

In the last decade, in response to questions about the Second
Amendment raised by gun ban groups and their followers, dozens of law
review articles have been written by the nation’s foremost
Constitutional scholars and historians. Among these, all but a few,
and those in minor publications, support the traditional understanding
of the right to arms as an individual right protected by the
Constitution. University of Tennessee’s Glenn Harlan Reynolds summed
it up by saying that scholars adhering to an individual rights
interpretation, “dominate the academic literature on the Second
Amendment almost completely,” and the verdict that the Second
Amendment is an individual right is “the mainstream scholarly
interpretation.”

Nicholas Johnson of Fordham University Law School, Nelson Lund of
George Mason Law School, Eugene Volokh of UCLA Law School, Joyce Lee
Malcolm of Bentley College, and Glenn Harlan Reynolds of the
University of Tennessee are available for interviews with the news
media to discuss the history and the “Standard Model” interpretation
of the Second Amendment by calling NRA Public Affairs.

NRA’s amicus brief in U.S. v. Emerson and a bibliography of more than
125 published books, law reviews, and essays on the Second Amendment
as an individual right can be found at www.nraila.org.

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