By Fred Thompson

If you care about Constitutional law, and everybody should, the big news is that it looks as if the Supreme Court is going to hear a Second Amendment case some time next year. The event that sparked this legal fuse was a case brought by six D.C. residents who simply wanted functional firearms in their homes for self-defense. In response, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit struck down the District's 31-year-old gun ban -- one of the strictest in the nation.

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Our individual right to keep and bear arms, as guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, may finally be confirmed by the high court; but this means that we're going to see increasing pressure on the Supreme Court from anti-gun rights activists who want the Constitution reinterpreted to fit their prejudices. The New York Times has already fired the first broadside.

A few days ago, the Gray Lady published a fascinating account of the case -- fascinating but fundamentally flawed. In it, the central argument about the Second Amendment is pretty accurately described. Specifically, it is between those who see it as an individual right versus those who see it as a collective states' right having more to do with the National Guard than the people.

Unfortunately, the article falsely portrays the individual right argument as some new interpretation held only by a few fringe theorists. The truth is very different, as civil rights attorney and gun law expert Don Kates has pointed out recently.

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By Chris Chumita and Jim Irvine

Ohio concealed carry license holders are still celebrating the passage of HB347 and the improvements it made to Ohio’s concealed carry law. In the last few years, we have been slowly taking back our Second Amendment rights. A recent trip to Kentucky reminded us how far behind we are. Kentucky is a decade ahead of Ohio with firearms reform. We have joked about how some of our legal and safe actions were considered felonies in Ohio. Of course it’s no joke to those who have been charged with felonies for an innocent misunderstanding.

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As we mentioned in our recap article, several Buckeye Firearms Association representatives attended the Second Amendment Foundation's Leadership Conference in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky.

Kentucky is very gun friendly and they believe that our Second Amendment rights are not based upon state lines. That is why they honor every other state's concealed handgun license. Ohio requires a reciprocity agreement between states before an out of state license is honored. Currently Ohio recognizes 16 other states. Kentucky is one of eleven states to honor a license from 48 states.

While in Kentucky, we were able to experience almost total freedom relating to where we were able to carry our handguns. When compared to Ohio, Kentucky seems to have very few places that are off limits to concealed carry.