In this week’s Second Amendment podcast on iVoices.org, Jon Caldara and I discuss three different cases which could give the Supreme Court an opportunity to decide whether the Second Amendment is incorporated in the Fourteenth: the Chicago handgun ban; the Alameda County, California, gun show ban on county property; and the New York nunchaku ban. The MP3 is ll minutes.
Last week’s podcast discussed the New York Times article which claimed that Heller is “firing blanks.” The week before, Caldara was guest-hosting an afternoon radio show, and we talked about whether Colorado should follow the policy of some other states, whereby people with concealed carry permits (which require a fingerprint-based background check) should be required to go through the instant check (a name-based computer check) when buying an additional gun.
In case you missed them the first time, here the two most popular podcasts we’ve ever done on iVoices. Both of them are still getting hundreds of listens per week:
How to Interpret the Constitution. I interview University of Montana Law Professor Rob Natelson. We discuss originalism, and Natelson’s recent articles. Nov. 24, 2008. 31 minutes.
Interview with Richard Pearson, Executive Director of the Illinois State Rifle Association. Oct. 14, 2008. Pearson has been lobbying on sporting and right to arms issues at the Illinois legislature since 1989. He has more first-hand knowledge of Obama’s record on these issues than anyone except Obama himself. In the 20-minutes podcast interview, Pearson suggests that Obama’s claim about his supposed record of support for sportsmen is extremely inaccurate.