ARMS KEEPERS
This organization got started in May 2009. We believe that an individual's right to keep and bear arms is constitutionally protected, by both the Second Amendment and by the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Government can enact reasonable regulations on this subject, and citizens have no right to possess weapons for indiscriminate killing, but the government cannot disarm the American people. People have a right to use weapons to reasonably defend themselves, and to be of service in the event of civil emergencies.
We participated, as a friend of the court, in litigation that may result in a U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decision incorporating the Second Amendment against the states. The case is McDonald v. Chicago, which arose in the Seventh Circuit (see appeals court decision here, SCOTUS docket here and further coverage here).
CLICK HERE TO READ OUR JUNE 2009 FRIEND OF THE COURT BRIEF URGING THE COURT TO TAKE THE CASE.
CLICK HERE TO READ OUR NOVEMBER 2009 FRIEND OF THE COURT BRIEF ON THE MERITS.
CLICK HERE TO READ OUR MARCH 2010 COMMENTARY ABOUT THE ORAL ARGUMENTS.
JOIN Arms Keepers! Membership is free. Please send contact information (including email and postal address) to: Arms Keepers, P.O. Box 197, Monroe, Connecticut 06468. Or, you can just send an email to ArmsKeepers@gmail.com.
Last Updated: March 8, 2010.