U.S. Senator Ken Salazar Member: Finance, Agriculture, Energy, Ethics and Aging Committees 2300 15^th Street, Suite 450 Denver, CO 80202 | 702 Hart Senate Building, Washington, D.C. 20510
For Immediate Release Thursday, June 26, 2008		CONTACT:Stephanie Valencia – 202-228-3630 Michael Amodeo – 202-228-5019
Sen. Salazar's Statement on Supreme Court's Decision to Uphold the Second Amendment, Gun Rights WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Senator Salazar issued the following statement on the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision that the District of Columbia’s handgun ban is unconstitutional and that the Constitution protects an individual’s right to own a gun. “Today’s decision reaffirms what the Founders intended when they wrote the Constitution and what millions of Americans already know: the Second Amendment protects the right of a law-abiding individual to own a gun. The District of Columbia’s ban on all handgun possession went too far and was rightly declared unconstitutional.” ###