Assembly Permits AG to File Brief in Key 2nd Amendment Case

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Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen released the following statement on today’s Wisconsin State Assembly action as it relates to Assembly Resolution 15 which grants the Attorney General authority to appear as amicus curiae in Otis McDonald, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois, which is currently pending before the United States Supreme Court. 

“The McDonald case will determine whether the Second Amendment right to bear arms under the Federal Constitution limits the ability of states and local governments to regulate firearms.  Today, at my request, the State Assembly took prompt action to pass a resolution that authorizes me to file a brief with the Supreme Court to advocate for a broad reading of the Second Amendment that will guarantee the right to keep and bear arms and prevent states and/or local governments from unwarranted intrusion into these rights.  The United States Supreme Court announced on September 30, 2009, it would hear the McDonald case.”