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AG Cordray: State of Ohio will join friend of the court brief asking for Second Amendment incorporation


Appearing Sunday evening as a guest on the Firearms Forum radio show with host Jim Irvine, Attorney General Richard Cordray announced that, in anticipation of the Supreme Court of the United States taking such a case, he has agreed to sign a brief being prepared by the State of Texas in support of the Second Amendment applying to the states.

"Since the Heller decision there have been either two or three federal Courts of Appeals who have confronted the question of whether the Heller decision, which of course recognized the individual right to bear arms under the Second Amendment and was applicable in that case in the District of Columbia - the question now is whether that same right will apply against state governments across the country," Cordray told WHK 1420 AM listeners.

Current Congressional environment provides window of opportunity for Second Amendment

By Jeff Knox

The surprise introduction and passage of a pro-rights amendment attached to a credit card bill this spring could be a hopeful sign of things to come.