Gun Owners of America

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Single most formative and defining interview with Second Amendment champion and icon, Dick Anthony Heller for Gun Owners of America.  As a licensed special police officer for the District of Columbia, Heller carried a gun in federal office buildings for his job, but was not allowed to have one in his home. Heller had lived in southeast D.C. near the Kentucky Courts public housing complex since 1970 and had seen the neighborhood “transformed from a child-friendly welfare complex to a drug haven”.

Made famous for the Heller v. DC case, it was Heller’s lawsuit that overturned the 1976 DC Gun Ban and opened the door for 150 new gun cases nationwide in the first year after the Supreme Court decision.