{"id":4963,"date":"2010-12-18T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2010\/12\/18\/brady-campaign-seeks-to-file-amicus\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:12:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:12:42","slug":"brady-campaign-seeks-to-file-amicus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=4963","title":{"rendered":"Brady Campaign Seeks To File Amicus Brief In Bateman Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:18470,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.examiner.com\\\/gun-rights-in-national\\\/anti-defense-lobby-seeks-to-nullify-second-amendment-when-it-s-needed-most&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20101224092015\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.examiner.com:80\\\/gun-rights-in-national\\\/anti-defense-lobby-seeks-to-nullify-second-amendment-when-it-s-needed-most&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 22:24:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 22:24:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>From the Brady Campaign:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Brady Center Urges Court to Dismiss Lawsuit Seeking Right to Carry Guns During Riots and States of Emergency<\/p>\n<p>Dec 16, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Washington, D.C. &#8212; The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence today filed a brief in federal court in North Carolina urging the court to dismiss a lawsuit seeking a right to take up arms in streets and other public spaces during riots or other emergencies.  The lawsuit challenges a longstanding North Carolina law that allows gun carrying on a person\u2019s property but temporarily bars public gun carrying in the vicinity of a riot and during states of emergency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Second Amendment does not grant a right of vigilantes to take up arms on our streets during a riot or state of emergency,\u201d said Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.  \u201cPolice and emergency responders seeking to quell a riot or deliver aid during an emergency should not be forced to contend with legally-authorized armed individuals and groups roaming alleys and public streets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Brady Center\u2019s brief argues that there is no right of armed vigilantes to take to the streets during riots or congregate in the vicinity of emergency responders trying to secure a downtown during riots, looting, or terrorist attacks.  The prospect of police and emergency responders being powerless to stop bands of armed citizens from taking to the streets during emergencies, looting, or rioting poses a serious threat to the government\u2019s ability to maintain public order and deliver emergency services.  If the lawsuit were successful, law enforcement would be unable to detect whether roaming armed individuals or gangs were would-be looters, terrorists, or vigilantes, thus jeopardizing their safety and their ability to respond to states of emergency.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Supreme Court recently held that the Second Amendment grants a right to possess a gun in the home for self-defense, but emphasized that this right \u201cis not unlimited\u201d and is subject to \u201creasonable firearms regulations.\u201d  The Supreme Court has held that bans on carrying concealed weapons do not violate the Second Amendment and courts have given the government broad authority to restore order during riots and emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, Bateman v. Purdue, was filed by the Second Amendment Foundation in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina.  The Brady Center\u2019s brief was joined by North Carolina Million Mom March Chapters of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the Religious Coalition For a Nonviolent Durham.  The brief was filed by attorneys with the Brady Center and the firm Hogan Lovells US LLP, along with Drew Erteschik of the Raleigh, N.C. firm Poyner Spruill LLP.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nTo paraphrase Lynyrd Skynyrd &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well, I heard Ms. Brady sing about her<br \/>\nWell, I heard ole Sarah put her down<br \/>\nWell, I hope Sarah Brady will remember<br \/>\nA Carolina man don&#8217;t need her around anyhow<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<b>UPDATE:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/gun-rights-in-national\/anti-defense-lobby-seeks-to-nullify-second-amendment-when-it-s-needed-most\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Codrea has some good commentary<\/a> on this nonsensical press release from the Brady Bunch in his National Gun Rights Examiner column.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Brady Campaign: Brady Center Urges Court to Dismiss Lawsuit Seeking Right to Carry Guns During Riots and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1240,48],"class_list":["post-4963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bateman-v-perdue","tag-brady-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6053,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963\/revisions\/6053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}