NRA Press Conference - 12/21/2012

Antonin Scalia

Appointed to the Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986.
Justice Scalia has been described as the intellectual anchor of the Court's conservative wing.


Scalia: Constitutional amendments are to be interpreted based on their meaning at the time of ratification.

Scalia: Vociferously opposes the idea of a living constitution, or the power of the judiciary to modify the meaning of constitutional provisions to adapt them to changing times.


Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said that the right to bear arms is not unlimited, and noted that future limitations ‘will have to be decided in future cases.

Scalia told “Fox News Sunday” that the Second Amendment’s language allowing citizens the right to own weapons doesn’t mean they can own any weapon they want.

“There are some limitations that can be imposed,” Scalia said. “What they are will depend on what the society understood were reasonable limitations at the time.”

In 2008, the Supreme Court declared a handgun ban enacted by the District of Columbia unconstitutional, but the majority noted that gun ownership was not an unlimited right. Scalia wrote the opinion in that case.


Decided law: "Gun ownership is not an unlimited right."

New 'Practice Range' app says it's from NRA, which blamed video games for violence (for ages 4 and up)

By Andrew Mach, Staff Writer, NBC News

Just weeks after the National Rifle Association forcefully blamed violent video games for gun violence, a new shooter game is out that appears to be from the NRA.

"NRA: Practice Range" was released Sunday in iTunes, the Apple-run site.

It features a 3D-shooting range and offers users simulated target practice. It isn’t clear what connection the NRA has to the app, which is described as an "Official NRA Licensed Product" on iTunes. NBC News has reached out to the organization for comment but has yet to receive a response.


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LAPEER, Mich. (AP) -

Officials say a security officer hired to help protect a Michigan charter school left an unloaded handgun unattended in a school bathroom.

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WAYNE LAPIERRE: We care about the President, so we protect him with armed Secret Service agents.

Ask the Kennedy and Reagan family’s how well that worked for them.

WAYNE LAPIERRE: We care about our money, so we protect our banks with armed guards.

Ask the banks how well that’s working form them. There were 5,014 bank robberies in 2011. The majority of bank robberies occurred in the most heavily armed part of the country…the south (Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, etc.) and the west (Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, etc.).