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AAllen:
Attorney General Jon Bruning also filed a brief joined by thirty-seven other state
attorneys general's, saying the protection of the Second Amendment applies to state and
local governments under the Fourteenth Amendment.

FarmerRick:
Attorney General Jon Bruning
News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Attorney General Bruning Urges Supreme Court to Protect Second Amendment Rights

LINCOLN ? The State of Nebraska has filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court urging justices to protect Second Amendment rights.

In a friend of the court brief, Attorney General Jon Bruning takes the position that the protection of the Second Amendment applies to state and local governments under the Fourteenth Amendment. Thirty-seven other state attorneys general have joined in the amicus brief.

?We?re asking the Court to protect our ability to keep and bear arms to the same degree as the rest of the Bill of Rights,? Bruning said.

The brief in McDonald v. Chicago supports a suit brought by Otis McDonald, a community activist who lives in a high-crime portion of Chicago. His work has drawn threats from local drug dealers, but Chicago city ordinances prohibit owning a handgun for protection.

Last year, Bruning and 31 other state attorneys general filed an amicus brief in District of Columbia v. Heller that successfully argued that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms.

The City of Chicago contends that the Heller decision does not apply to state and city governments. The attorneys general brief explains why Constitutional protections should apply to city, county, and state governments under the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment.

?Cities and states should not pick and choose what part of the Constitution they want to recognize,? Bruning said. ?They can?t just throw out the Bill of Rights.?

?Just as local governments cannot constitutionally act as ?laboratories? for initiatives to abrogate their citizens? right to free speech or their freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures, nor can they nullify the fundamental right to keep and bear arms secured by the Second Amendment,? the brief contends.

AAllen:
Just received notification that a 5th Nebraska Legislator had signed onto the state brief, Sen. Beau McCoy of District 39, which covers areas of western Douglas County (Elkhorn) as well as parts of Washington and Sarpy counties.  Please remember to thank those who have decided to support this effort that helps to protect all our 2nd Amendment rights.

If you know your senator also supported this Amicus Brief please let us know, we appreciate all who stand with us.

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