New York Times
Justices to Decide on Right to Keep Handgun at Home

On Nov. 20th, the Supreme Court announced that it would decide whether the Constitution grants individuals the right to keep guns in their homes for private use, plunging the justices headlong into a divisive and long-running debate over how to interpret the Second Amendment's guarantee of the "right of the people to keep and bear arms."
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Legal Community Against Violence
Supreme Court To Decide Important Second Amendment Case

The U.S. Supreme Court announced today that it will hear the case of District of Columbia v. Heller, in which the lower court struck down the District's law banning most handgun possession. The case is significant because it will mark the first time the Court will consider the scope of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in nearly seventy years.
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Coalition To Stop Gun Violence
Heller v. District of Columbia Case

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit declared the city's handgun ban unconstitutional in a split ruling in March. This was the first time in history that a gun control law had been struck down on Second Amendment grounds. The court's ruling could affect not just DC's gun laws, but gun laws across the country.
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Brady Campaign
U.S. Supreme Court to Consider Most Significant Second Amendment Case in History

The U.S. Supreme Court has announced it will consider D.C v. Heller this term. By agreeing to hear the appeal by the District of Columbia in the Parker/Heller case, the U.S. Supreme Court has the chance to reverse a clearly erroneous decision and make it clear that the Constitution does not prevent communities from having the gun laws they believe are needed to protect public safety
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Gun Guys
After Years of Allowing Gun Control, Supreme Court Decides to Hear Appeal of D.C. Ban on Handguns

The announcement represents the potential, given that there are four Federalist Society pro-NRA justices on the Court (Alito, Scalia, Roberts, and Thomas), that for the first time in United States history the Supreme Court may declare an individual-as distinct from collective right-to own firearms. Lost in the legal arguments, as GunGuys has pointed out on numerous occasions, is the reality that even a ban on handguns does not restrict the right of a person to own other firearms. A resident in D.C. can own shotguns and rifles, for instance.
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Police Chiefs Speak
September 19, 2007

The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) released a groundbreaking and comprehensive report which details 39 specific recommendations for reversing the disturbing rise in gun violence in our nation and the tragic spike in line of duty deaths of police officers by firearms.The report Taking a Stand: Reducing Gun Violence in Our Communities is a call for action that provides a clear roadmap for federal, state and local governments, as well as law enforcement, community and philanthropic leaders, to help reduce firearm-related violence in our communities.