Huge Gun Rights Victory: Thank You George Bush!

Bush is the first President to direct the Justice Department to argue for an individual right to keep and bear arms.

by Rod D. Martin
March 9, 2007

In what is certainly the most important judicial victory for the Second Amendment in decades, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia today struck down the 30-year-old D.C. gun ban, opening the door to a Supreme Court showdown and the overturning of similar unconstitutional laws from New York to California.

This extremely significant victory for the Bill of Rights is going to be well-celebrated across the country, but even many activists will not grasp the debt they owe to George W. Bush. I know. Because I've spoken on this across the nation, and met virtually no one who knows anything about it.

You see, in 2001, during the first year of the Bush Presidency, our hero directed the Justice Department to not only recognize an individual right to keep and bear arms -- the plain language of the Second Amendment -- but to argue court cases accordingly. This may not seem like a big deal. But it turns out that for forty years, the Justice Department -…