Despotic city, courts fret gun owners: "The city of Denver has long criminalized what has been legal elsewhere in Colorado, namely the ownership, use and transportation of firearms. After years of being abused by the city, gun owners found some measure of support in 2003 when the state legislature and governor passed two important bills. These bills established a statewide concealed carry statute (Senate Bill 24) and state law as the standard for possession, use and transportation of firearms (Senate Bill 25). Denver has for years claimed that, as a home rule city, they are free to treat gun owners anyway they want, including nonresidents who happen to be in Denver. Our state constitution never intended to create a city-state with home rule or to use home rule as a means to cancel other constitutional rights. So, after the legislature in 2003 handed Denver a loss on this issue and affirmed our constitutional rights to possess, use and transport firearms, Denver turned to the courts to achieve its desires."



UN gun control summit attacks Second Amendment: "'Small Arms, as Deadly as WMD.' ... 'Wherever arms flow, violence follows.' ... These absurd and objectively inaccurate pronouncements come courtesy of the United Nations, which commences its international gun control summit in New York from June 26 to July 7, 2006. According to the U.N. announcement, the summit targets 'the proliferation of small arms and light weapons,' and literally advocates their collection and wholesale destruction. Rather than saying, 'wherever arms flow, violence follows,' however, the U.N. could more accurately announce that 'wherever guns are confiscated, genocide and violence follow.'"