Posted April 11, 2017 5:04 pm by Comments

By Ammoland Editor Joe Evans

Judge Neil Gorsuch and President Trump, photo from Conservative Review
Judge Neil Gorsuch and President Trump, photo from Conservative Review

Firearms Policy Coalition

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -(Ammoland.com)- Following the Senates confirmation of Neil Gorsuch to the United States Supreme Court, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) released the following statement:

On this momentous occasion, we wish to thank Senate Majority Leader McConnell for his courageous leadership throughout this trying process, President Donald J. Trump for fulfilling his promise, and all of the Senators who voted to confirm Judge Gorsuch to our nation’s highest court.

We also wish to thank the thousands upon thousands of Americans who used their voice and our grassroots activism tools to support the Senate’s confirmation of Judge Gorsuch.

Since the Supreme Court’s landmark D.C. v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago decisions, many lower courts have rebelled against these decisions and, in so doing, denied tens of millions of law-abiding Americans their fundamental, individual right to keep and bear arms.

At the forefront of this resistance is the lower courts’ refusal to follow the Court’s command, made in Heller and reiterated in McDonald, that Second Amendment claims are not to be judged by unrestrained judicial interest balancing.

Indeed, as the Supreme Court said in Heller, “The very enumeration of the right …Read the Rest

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