CIVIL RIGHTS LITIGATION/ SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS/ RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS/ GUN RIGHTS

Kevin O'Grady, who has Second Amendment civil rights cases against the State of Hawaii, at a Hawaii Friends of the NRA Dinner with NRA President David Keene, with an NRA limited edition piece of artwork "Allegiance". November 11, 2012.

 

 

 

You, as an American, have more rights than any other citizen in the world. One of those rights is the fundamental constitutional right to keep and bear arms. You have this right, enshrined in the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution and many state constitutions. It is the most important civil right. It is the palladium of rights. It is ancient and protects all the other civil rights.

As an American constitutional right, although predating the constitution and in the bill of rights, it had been largely ignored for more than two centuries. Now, the United States Supreme Court has started applying it to the states and federal laws as it deserves to be. The right to keep and bear arms to defend yourself requires the courts to examine laws and regulations which have been around for decades which trampled this most important and time honored right.

Do you have a petty misdemeanor or full misdemeanor conviction? Did you know that some misdemeanor convictions could bar you under federal law from exercising your Second Amendment rights? Some might bar you under state law. Does your state burden your right to keep and bear arms with useless, repetitive, pointless paperwork, forms, or other requirements? Do they require you to get permission to exercise your rights or leave the ability to exercise your rights in the unfettered discretion of a bureaucrat or a law enforcement officer who thinks only cops should have guns or only the rich or politically connected? Did you know that Martha Stewart is a felon, by virtue of not telling the whole truth while being interrogated by federal agents regarding stock transactions that she probably didn't remember and is thus barred from possessing a weapon under federal law even though the whole point of barring convicted felons from owning weapons was ostensibly to prevent murderers from owning guns? Do you think this is fair or constitutional?

If you feel that your right to keep and bear arms has been or is being violated, come talk to Kevin O'Grady, the only NRA referral attorney in Hawaii, about your situation.

O’Grady challenges Hawaii’s draconian carry laws (see Page 8)

Hawaii Lawsuit Opens Up Interpretation Of 2nd Amendment Rights