{"id":626,"date":"2017-09-29T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2017\/09\/29\/a-great-win-to-kick-off-grpc-2017\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:28:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:28:04","slug":"a-great-win-to-kick-off-grpc-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=626","title":{"rendered":"A Great Win To Kick Off GRPC 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:4994,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.saf.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nThe 2017 Gun Rights Policy Conference starts this evening in Irving, Texas. For those that don&#8217;t know, it is sponsored by the Second Amendment Foundation and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. And what could be a better way to start this conference than a win in the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in the Wrenn case.<\/p>\n<p>The Court of Appeals has refused to hold an en banc review of Wrenn v. DC which is a win for gun rights in the District of Columbia. The Wrenn case invalidated the District&#8217;s requirement that a citizen show &#8220;good reason&#8221; in order to obtain a carry permit. The question is now whether the District of Columbia will appeal this to the United States Supreme Court. The last time they appealed such a loss in a gun rights case was in DC v. Heller and we know how that turned out for them.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.saf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.saf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From SAF on their win in DC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>BELLEVUE, WA \u2014 The U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has turned down a request from the city for an en banc hearing on the concealed carry case of Wrenn v. District of Columbia, amounting to a strategic win for the Second Amendment Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the court, not a single judge on the court requested a hearing. Earlier, a three-judge panel had ruled in favor of plaintiffs Brian Wrenn and SAF. The case challenges the District\u2019s carry permit policy that requires citizens to provide a \u201cgood reason\u201d to be issued a permit. The Appeals Court struck down that requirement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTen years ago, Washington D.C.\u2019s political leadership tried to extinguish Second Amendment rights before the Supreme Court,\u201d noted attorney Alan Gura, who represents the plaintiffs. \u201cThe result was D.C. v. Heller, a tremendous victory for the rights of all Americans. With the court of appeals again confirming the people\u2019s right to bear arms, Washington, D.C.\u2019s politicians must once again ask themselves whether it makes sense to keep resisting our fundamental rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gura successfully argued both the 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller case and 2010 McDonald v. City of Chicago case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Both cases dealt directly with Second Amendment issues. Heller affirmed that the amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms, and McDonald incorporated the Second Amendment to the states via the 14thAmendment.<\/p>\n<p>SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb was delighted with the court\u2019s decision not to grant the en banc hearing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are grateful,\u201d Gottlieb observed, \u201cthat the court has shown considerable wisdom, and this should help advance the effort to assure reasonable concealed carry for District residents. It represents one more advancement in our effort to win firearms freedom one lawsuit at a time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The victory comes on the eve of the 32nd annual Gun Rights Policy Conference in Dallas, Texas. The event is co-sponsored by SAF and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2017 Gun Rights Policy Conference starts this evening in Irving, Texas. 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