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Rasmussen: 47 Percent of Country Opposes ‘Open Carry’ of Firearms

By | 05.14.10 | 11:19 am

Our recent post on a new poll indicating that more that 52 percent of the country is opposed to allowing the open carry of loaded guns in public has left some readers questioning the integrity of the findings. The survey, some note, was commissioned by the Brady Center More…

A Quick Primer on ‘Incorporation’

By | 07.16.09 | 5:35 pm

What is “incorporation?”

Among the many legal terms mentioned over the last four days of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings, the term “incorporation,” when it comes to the Second Amendment right to bear arms, is probably the most confusing.

Incorporation in this context refers to whether the Bill More…